The Pleasures of Life ...Macmillan and Company, 1890 - Conduct of life |
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... comparatively without sensation . " We talk , ” says Helps , " of the origin of evil ; . . . but what is evil ? We mostly speak of sufferings and trials as good , per- haps , in their result ; but we hardly admit that they may be good ...
... comparatively without sensation . " We talk , ” says Helps , " of the origin of evil ; . . . but what is evil ? We mostly speak of sufferings and trials as good , per- haps , in their result ; but we hardly admit that they may be good ...
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... comparatively seldom come to us , it is we who go to them . Many of us fritter our life away . La Bruyère says that " most men spend much of their lives in making the rest miserable ; " or , as Goethe puts it : " Careworn man has , in ...
... comparatively seldom come to us , it is we who go to them . Many of us fritter our life away . La Bruyère says that " most men spend much of their lives in making the rest miserable ; " or , as Goethe puts it : " Careworn man has , in ...
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... comparatively free from anxiety . But how can we fill our lives with life , energy , and interest , and yet keep care outside ? Many great men have made shipwreck in the attempt . " Anthony sought for happiness in love ; Brutus in glory ...
... comparatively free from anxiety . But how can we fill our lives with life , energy , and interest , and yet keep care outside ? Many great men have made shipwreck in the attempt . " Anthony sought for happiness in love ; Brutus in glory ...
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... comparatively of late years adopted their present course into the Mediterranean . But , however this may be , the Rhine of Germany and the Rhine of Switzerland are very unlike . The catastrophe of Schaff- hausen seems to alter the whole ...
... comparatively of late years adopted their present course into the Mediterranean . But , however this may be , the Rhine of Germany and the Rhine of Switzerland are very unlike . The catastrophe of Schaff- hausen seems to alter the whole ...
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... comparatively early state of human development in which we now live , a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others which would make real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life im ...
... comparatively early state of human development in which we now live , a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others which would make real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life im ...
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Analects of Confucius Apostolic Fathers Aristophanes Aristotle asked Bacon beautiful better blessings blue bright CHAPTER charm cheerful Cicero clouds color dark death delightful doubt earth Emerson enjoy Epictetus eternal Euripides evil feel flowers friends give glorious glory gods Goethe greatest Greek hand happiness heart heaven honour hope hour human important infinite interest Jeremy Taylor King labour light live look Madame de Staël Marcus Aurelius Milton mind Molière Moreover Nature never Nibelungenlied night noble ourselves pain peace perhaps Plato pleasure Plutarch poet Poetry proverb Ramayana realise reason religion rest rich Ruskin says scarcely seems Shakespeare Socrates song sorrow soul spirit stars suffer sure sweet tells things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion trees troubles true truth wise wish wonder words Wordsworth
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Page 102 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 70 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 69 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 43 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 185 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 110 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Page 153 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 182 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 133 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 155 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...