An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two Books |
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... favour of the former period , particularly if the kind of desire were well chosen ; for assuredly all are not equally conducive to happiness . Any , however , is better than none ; or if there be an ex- ception , it is in the case of ...
... favour of the former period , particularly if the kind of desire were well chosen ; for assuredly all are not equally conducive to happiness . Any , however , is better than none ; or if there be an ex- ception , it is in the case of ...
Page 46
... favour of the superior happiness of the former . A question of considerable interest here presents itself . Does the formation of particular attachments tend to increase or diminish general benevolence ? I am inclined to believe that ...
... favour of the superior happiness of the former . A question of considerable interest here presents itself . Does the formation of particular attachments tend to increase or diminish general benevolence ? I am inclined to believe that ...
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... favour the ruling emotion . Such is one of the most remarkable and important effects of this class of mental phenomena . They constitute directly by far the greater part of our happiness , and by swaying the intellect , they in fact ...
... favour the ruling emotion . Such is one of the most remarkable and important effects of this class of mental phenomena . They constitute directly by far the greater part of our happiness , and by swaying the intellect , they in fact ...
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... favour it , and in devising means for its gratification . This I believe to be the order of things in all cases where we pursue any object with eagerness . When the desire which prompts us to action is the result of a calm review of all ...
... favour it , and in devising means for its gratification . This I believe to be the order of things in all cases where we pursue any object with eagerness . When the desire which prompts us to action is the result of a calm review of all ...
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... is a passport to general favour , and is neces- sary for success in every pursuit , it also leads us to fame or glory , which raises us high in the world . Knowledge is charming for its own sake , and also 82 ON SOME PARTICULAR DESIRES .
... is a passport to general favour , and is neces- sary for success in every pursuit , it also leads us to fame or glory , which raises us high in the world . Knowledge is charming for its own sake , and also 82 ON SOME PARTICULAR DESIRES .
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Page 197 - 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 416 - 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 further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 243 - 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 478 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 68 - 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 67 - 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 109 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 111 - 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 119 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Page 254 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?