 If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another ; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humour are almost the whole affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat,...  Letters and Essays in Prose and Verse - 47. lappuseautors: Richard Sharp - 1834 - 268 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 lapas
...; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humour are almost the whole affair. Many run about after...destined to take it up, before you were old enough to choose for yourself. Do not be too sure that you would have chosen well. I somewhere met with an observation,... | |
 | Richard Sharp - 1834 - 326 lapas
...machine, yet the chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prude«tly cultivating an under-growth of small pleasures, since...in having been destined to take it up, before you 68 were old enough to chuse for yourself. Do not be too sure that you would have chosen well. I somewhere... | |
 | 576 lapas
...occupied, and she possessed in an eminent degree that art, so beautifully recommended by Mr. Sharpe, of "prudently cultivating an under-growth of small pleasures,...very few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases." It is a trite remark that few lives can be conceived less joyous than that of an applauded beauty and... | |
 | Richard Sharp - 1835 - 214 lapas
...!• foolish, and should not be indulged. " One ought to be happy without thinking too much about it." If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another...destined to take it up, before you were old enough to choose for yourself. Do not be too sure that you would have chosen well. I somewhere met with an observation,... | |
 | Richard Sharp - 1835 - 238 lapas
...about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat, while it is on his head, or in his hand. inflict great pain, yet the chief secret of comfort...destined to take it up, before you were old enough to choose for yourself. Do not be too sure that you would have chosen well. I somewhere met with an observation,... | |
 | 1834 - 562 lapas
...; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humour are almost the whole affair. Many run about after...destined to take it up, before you were old enough to choose for yourself. Do not be too sure that you would have chosen well. I somewhere met with an observation,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 lapas
...hath curst. —Mn. Norton. THE ART OF HAPPINESS. — Sharp gives us the true method to be happy : " The chief secret of comfort, lies in not suffering...very few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases." ROYAI. SAYING. — Alphonsus, surnamed the Wise, king of Aragon, used to say, " That among so many... | |
 | 1850 - 642 lapas
...good, example is the best lustre of virtue; and if we are bad, shame is the best step to amendment Though sometimes small evils, like invisible insects,...very few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases. — Sharp. RICHES. — He that is proud of his riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbour... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 lapas
...four I's. — Guesses at Truth. THE ART OF HAPPINESS. Sharp gives us the true method to be happy : " The chief secret of comfort, lies in not suffering...very few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases." USE AND ABUSE. A certain authoress interdicts cards and assemblies. No cards, because cards are employed... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 lapas
...wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and goodhumour are almost the whole affair. Many run after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his...very few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases. — Sharpe's Essays, p. 48. In all the professions, high stations seem to come down to us, rather than... | |
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