 | Andrew James Symington - 1857
...and Happiness is perpetual ; " and Dr. Johnson says : " The fountain of Content must spring up in the mind ; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs... | |
 | 1860
...will know that he is entered on immortal life. SJ HAPPINESS. — The fountain of content must spring up in a man's own mind ; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to geek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless effort?,... | |
 | Caroline M. Mersereau - 1860 - 346 Seiten
...And he should keep — who can. Wordsworth. 12. 6f. — The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposi tion, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply thu griefs... | |
 | ...slightest word which may influence their future lives should become a thing of moment in our eyes. THE man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 383 Seiten
...hoy noney, nonoy. T. J ) I:K M.II . Patient Grissell. THE fountain of content * must spring up in the mind ; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 210 Seiten
...trial, have been soon convinced that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs... | |
 | 1872
...make a two-legged animal a man without it.— Goethe. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will wsrte his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the grieft... | |
 | 1873
...*ort of wax, which is u.-i'd in the manuficture of candles. THE foundation of content must rpring np in a man's own mind; and he who has so little knowledge of hnraair nature as to seek h^ppinewi by changing anything but his own diMpoailion, will waste his life... | |
 | 1874
...Throughout the varying year. Crab be. REFLECTIONS. ""THE fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and he -*- who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 298 Seiten
...when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs... | |
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He would, upon the trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his... 
