 God has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it. And remember, if you were to choose something lower, and make it the rule of your life to seek your own pleasure and escape...  Saint Pauls - Page 5781873Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1863 - 658 pages
...to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrong, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they...calamity might come just the same; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 806 pages
...to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrong, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they...calamity might come just the same ; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...to-morrow sacred : he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrong, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they...calamity might come just the same; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may... | |
 | George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1863 - 776 pages
...own pleasure and escape from what is disagreeable, calamity might come just the same; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one...would have been better for me if I had never been born.' I will tell you something, Lillo." Romola paused a moment She had taken Lillo's cheeks between... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 876 pages
...end, and not on what will happen to you because of it. And remember, if you were to choose eomething lower, and make it the rule of your life to seek your...calamity might come just the same ; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 862 pages
...pleasure and escape from what is disagreeable, calamity might come just the same ; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one...has no balm in it, and that may well make a man say, — l It would have been better for me if I had never been born.' I will tell you something, Lillo."... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...pleasure and cscnpo ! from what is disagreeable, calamity j might come just the same : and it would be calamity falling on a base ' mind, which is the one...form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may 1 well make a man say, ' It would have been better for me if I had never been bom." I will tell you... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...to-morrow sacred ; he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrong, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they...calamity might come just the same ; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...reach of men, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you becanse of it. And remember, if you were to choose something...would have been better for me if I had never been born.'" This speech is as noble as though pronounced by a monarch over his fallen crown and dismantled... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...to-morrow sacred ; he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrong, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they...calamity might come just the same ; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that has no balm in it, and that may... | |
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