 ... 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 from what is disagreeable, calamity...  Beacon Lights of History: Great women. 1885 - Page 498by John Lord - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Adam Miller - Conversion - 1859 - 468 pages
...of my life, I burst into tears, and exclaimed, " God, be merciful to me a sinner." I often thought it would have been better for me if I had never been born; for I had no one to lead me in the right way, and I knew not the way in which to go. What darkened... | |
 | 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...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 her... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 876 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...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 her... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 806 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...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 her... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 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...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 her... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...choose something lower and make it the rule of your life to seek your own pleasure and escape from what is disagreeable, calamity might come just the...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 palaces... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 778 pages
...choose something lower and make it the rule of your life to seek your own pleasure and escape from what is disagreeable, calamity might come just the...would have been better for me if I had never been bom.' " This speech is as noble as though pronounced by a monarch over his fallen crown and dismantled... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 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...have been better for me if I had never been born.' Thou art not like the herd of thy sex, my Romola : thou art such a woman as the immortal poets had... | |
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