 There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world, that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful.  Romola - Page 371by George Eliot - 1863Full view - About this book
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 806 pages
...difficult in the world, that no man can be great—he can hardly keep himself from wickedness—unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards,...obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo—you know why I keep to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard or painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood." The spirit of Felix Holt is identical with the spirit of this passage ; so is the Mill on the Floss.... | |
 | Literature - 1866 - 802 pages
...gives up " thinking much about pleasures or " rewards, and gets strength to endure " what is hard or painful. My father " had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and " obscurity rather than falsehood." The spirit of " Felix Holt " is identical with the spirit of this passage ; so is the " Mill on the... | |
 | 1866 - 506 pages
...givea up " thinking much about pleasures or " rewards, and gets strength to endure " Avhat is hard or painful. My father " had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and " obscurity rather than falsehood." The spirit of "Felix Holt " is identical with the spirit of this passage ; so is the " Mill on the... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...can hardly keep himself from wickedness— unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or reward, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful....belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrongs, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they are capable of. And so, my Lillo, if you... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 778 pages
...can hardly keep himself from wickedness— unless he gives ap thinking much about pleasure or reward, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful....belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrongs, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they are capable of. And so, my Lillo, if you... | |
 | London St. Anne, Soho - Church work - 1873 - 248 pages
...— he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful." These words are good and wise; eminently true and helpful for all time and all circumstances, little... | |
 | John Morley - Literature - 1878 - 326 pages
...wickedness—unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard or painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood." The spirit of Felix Holt is identical with the spirit of this passage; so is Tlie Mill on the Floss.... | |
 | John Morley - Literature - 1878 - 326 pages
...wickedness—unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard or painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood." The spirit of Felix Holt is identical with the spirit of this passage; so is The Mill on the Floss.... | |
 | John Morley - Literature, Modern - 1879 - 324 pages
...unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard or painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood." The spirit of Felix Holt is identical with the spirit of this passage ; so is The Mill on the Floss.... | |
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