The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his work done. Not " I can't eat !" but " I can't work !" that was the burden of all wise complaining among men. Mind Cures - Page 139by Geoffrey Rhodes - 1915 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...very paltry speculation is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world. The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself...work done. Not " I can't eat !" but " I can't work 1" that was the burden of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the one unhappiness of... | |
| 1843 - 1380 pages
...being's end and aim,' is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world. The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself...— that he cannot work — that he cannot get his destinv as a man fulfilled." " The latest Gospel in this world, is, know thy work and do it. ' Know... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 404 pages
...very paltry speculation is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world. The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself...happiness enough to get his work done. Not " I can't eat I" but " I can't work I" that was the burden of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 198 pages
...being's end and aim," is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world. The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, hxppiness enough to get his work done. Not "I can't eat!" but " I can'l work !" that was the burden... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...few remarks from the latest and wildest production of Carlyle's pen:* "The only happiness," says he, "a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his work well done. Behold, the day is passing swiftly over; our life is passing swiftly over; and the night... | |
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...and intellectual beauty would appear, and society itself reveal the Orphic movement." — BUSKNELL. " The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself...about, was happiness enough to get his work done." — CAKLYLE. "The object of all recreation is to increase our capacity for work, to keep the blood... | |
| 1856 - 386 pages
...wiser! A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gormandizing, whom he had just, too briefly in the Patient's judgment,...about was, happiness enough to get his work done. It is after all the one unhappiness of a man that he cannot work; cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled.... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1862 - 656 pages
...paltry speculation, is at bottom, if we will / count well, not yet two centuries old in the world. The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself...with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his_work.done. Not " I can't eat !" but " I can't work !" that was the burden of all wise complaining... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...obey'd ; At once yourself and mighty nations bless, And make humanity your happiness. Jacob. ТЪе worlds, That there is nothing beautiful in this The passion'd soul has clas happiL*4i enough to get his work done. Not "I сйлЧ eat!" but, "I can't work!" — that was the... | |
| John Watts - 1865 - 206 pages
...than the head." The following, from "Past and Present," contains certain notions on happiness : — " The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself...happiness enough to get his work done. Not 'I can't eat I' but 'I can't work!' that was the burden of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the... | |
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