An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two Books |
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... probably still fewer who can be altogether absorbed by general benevolence , it follows with the strongest evidence that particular attachments are necessary to the great bulk of man- kind . And this explains why it so often happens ...
... probably still fewer who can be altogether absorbed by general benevolence , it follows with the strongest evidence that particular attachments are necessary to the great bulk of man- kind . And this explains why it so often happens ...
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... probably exceeds it ; but when the cast is unlucky , and all is over , the suddenness of the transition from riches or com- petence to poverty , surprise at the new situation , and the galling idea that self alone is to blame , all com ...
... probably exceeds it ; but when the cast is unlucky , and all is over , the suddenness of the transition from riches or com- petence to poverty , surprise at the new situation , and the galling idea that self alone is to blame , all com ...
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... probably gain ideas be they right or wrong . So , if we wish strongly for any object , we are im- pelled to meditate upon it , and the wish alternating with thought , constantly tends to give a certain di- rection to the latter . Thus ...
... probably gain ideas be they right or wrong . So , if we wish strongly for any object , we are im- pelled to meditate upon it , and the wish alternating with thought , constantly tends to give a certain di- rection to the latter . Thus ...
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... probably , no part of the character which can so little be modified by education as the greater or less tendency to hopefulness . It is not asserted that education can here do nothing , but nature assuredly does very much more . nothing ...
... probably , no part of the character which can so little be modified by education as the greater or less tendency to hopefulness . It is not asserted that education can here do nothing , but nature assuredly does very much more . nothing ...
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... probably the greatest of which our nature is susceptible . The culture of these affections has a twofold good effect ; for it checks those two great tendencies of our nature , the tendency to self , and that to sense ; whereas the ...
... probably the greatest of which our nature is susceptible . The culture of these affections has a twofold good effect ; for it checks those two great tendencies of our nature , the tendency to self , and that to sense ; whereas the ...
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Page 64 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music...
Page 238 - Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Page 284 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 521 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 459 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 65 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees ; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly...
Page 116 - I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Page 152 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 116 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Page 117 - If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.