...ancient saint, Thomas a Kempis ; and we may compare with it the saying of a modern sage, Thomas Carlyle, "There is in man a higher than love of happiness ;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." Divine knowledge is not as the light of the moon, to sleep by ; but as the light of the sun, to work...

...which finds in happiness our " being's end and aim." The heart responds to Carlyle's stirring words : " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness! " Yet can we accept this sentiment as sufficient for human nature's...

...which finds in happiness our " being's end and aim." The heart responds to Carlyle's stirring words : " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness ! " Yet can we accept this sentiment as sufficient for human nature's...

...better than they ; and the general lesson which it conveys, as put in the words of Thomas Carlyle : " There is in man a Higher than love of happiness ;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness," is undoubtedly true and important ; but is taught in this instance at least, needlessly, as it seems...

...conception of life as has been wrought out by man. He is at one with George Eliot, when she says: " There is in man a higher than love of happiness: he...without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness." He is sounding the same note with Carlyle, who says: "It is not to taste things but to do noble and...

...Lord, thy sure relief ; Patient hearts their ptfin to see, And Thy grace, to follow Thee. JOHN KEBLE. THERE is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness. THOMAS CARLYLE. GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help...

...in its history of love, made necessary by the aim to show that Carlyle is right when he says "Thep: is in man a Higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness and instead thereul find blessedness." The present volume lias been carefully revised to bring it into closer touch...

...like all other human powers. A high stage of progress is marked in Carlyle's saying: "There is in mau a higher than love of happiness. He can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." Rights and Duties is a suggestive little manual by Mrs. KG Wells, and Mr. Smiles's Duty has an abundance...

...two, for the shoe-black has a aoul quite other than his stomach — the shoe-black is infinite.' ' But there is in man a higher than love of happiness, he can do without happiness, and in lien thereof find blessedness.' To attain this, he must devote himself to the service of truth and...

...dolefully because carrion ' enough is not given thee ? Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.' ' Es leuchtet mir ein, I see a glimpse of it !' cries he elsewhere...can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessed' ness ! Was it not to preach-forth this same HIGHER that sages ' and martyrs, the Poet and...