...she would have suited better to have toiled through life with the man who had cried with Goethe, " There is in man a Higher than Love of Happiness; he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness." It was in pursuit of this God-inspired doctrine that Carlyle overlooked...

...unlimited power to the means of preservation, of grace and growth, at every man's command. J. II. THOM THERE is in man a higher than love of happiness : he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness ! For this shall every one that is godly pray unfa Thee in a time when Thou...

...nothing other than a Vulture, then, that fliest through the Universe seeking after somewhat to eat ; and shrieking dolefully because carrion enough is...Happiness : he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the...

...He makes peace with nothing, takes refuge in nothing. He flouts at happiness, at repose, at joy. " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." " The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness — earnestness...

...past, so thou wilt transmit it to the whole future." And then finally as a glorious climax he says : " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. Love not pleasure, love God. This is the everlasting Yea wherein all contradiction...

...nothing other than a vulture, then, that fliest through the Universe seeking after something to eat, and shrieking dolefully because carrion enough is not given thee ? Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. — THOMAS CARLYLE : Sartor Resartus. His voice was such a voice as the devil tempted Eve with ; you...

...nothing other than a vulture, then, that fliest through the Universe seeking after something to eat, and shrieking dolefully because carrion enough is not given thee ? Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. — THOMAS CARLYLE: Sartor Resartus. His voice was such a voice as the devil tempted Eve with ; you...

...Yea ": Bk. II., c. ix.), which perhaps will bear quoting once more. " There is in man," says he, " a Higher than love of Happiness : he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this Higher that sages and martyrs, the Poet...

...nothing other than a Vulture, then, that ' fliest through the Universe seeking after somewhat to eat ; ' and shrieking dolefully because carrion enough is not given ' thee ? Close thy Byrnn ; open thy Goethe.' 'Es leuchtet mir ein, I see a glimpse of it ! ' cries he elsewhere : ' there...

...rounded off in this world, and to man solely in his earth-limited being. Carlyle wrote many years ago, " There is in man a higher than love of happiness : he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." Spencer, in his "Data of Ethics," ridicules this saying, which perhaps is...