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Cheerfulness As a Life Power - Page 54
by Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 84 pages
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Autobiography

John Stuart Mill - Economists - 1873 - 344 pages
...that this end was only to be attained by not makingit the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed...
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The City-road Magazine, for ..., Volume 4

Methodist Church - 1874 - 618 pages
..." this end is only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 8

Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1875 - 712 pages
...doubtful consistency, thought that this was to be attained by not making it the direct end ; and that those only are happy who have their minds fixed on...some object other than their own happiness — the philanthropic improvement of mankind, for instance. He found, too, that the emotions needed to be cultivated...
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American Spiritual Magazine, Volume 2

Spiritualism - 1876 - 404 pages
...fellows, shall it come to you, pure, fresh and free, like God's sunlight. Says John Stuart Mill, " Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness." Again, the objector forgets that the gentle Jesus went not into the fashionable places of worship,...
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Business

James Platt - Business ethics - 1876 - 216 pages
...them steadily with a purpose which must sooner or later bring you to the haven you would be, remember those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness : aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. The happiness of others, improvement of...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 28

Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...(happiness) was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy, I said, who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness — on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 36

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1877 - 828 pages
...internal culture, but leaving happiness to take care of itself. " Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. Aiming thus at something else they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life are sufficient...
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The Irish monthly magazine [afterw.] The Irish monthly, Volume 1

1879 - 684 pages
...he now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. ' Those unly are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind ; even on some art or pursuit, followed...
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Little Classics, Volume 17

Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...end of life," he now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. " Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, — on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed...
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Platt's Essays, Volume 1

James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...steadily with a purpose which must sooner or later bring you to the haven you would be in, remember those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness : aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. The happiness of others, improvement of...
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