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And, if I had done my best in the same direction, I should trust in the Unknowable for help. Then too, is not gratitude to Heaven the best of prayers? Unhappy he who has never felt it! Unhappier still, who has never had cause to feel it! It may be deemed unwarrantable thus to draw the lines between what, for want of better terms, we call Material and Spiritual.
The current of her life should be more gentle, peaceful and trivial than man's, without being essentially happier or unhappier.
To pity Millet is a piece of arrogance; if life be hard for such resolute and pious spirits, it is harder still for us, had we the wit to understand it; but we may pity his unhappier rival, who, for no apparent merit, was raised to opulence and momentary fame, and, through no apparent fault was suffered step by step to sink again to nothing.
"You may be charged with more of your Hebrew curses against Merapi, or you may say words to her that will make her even unhappier than she is. Yet if you would wish to see her in my presence " "My lord Prince, I will not trouble you so far. Farewell. Be pleased to convey "
There is no unhappier lot than that of those healthy men who can work and want to work, and do not find a chance to work. But this tremendous problem of the unemployed is not organically connected with the struggle about socialism.
A marriage, never of inclination, as indeed in those days amongst great families few marriages were, became an insupportable slavery ere the first year of wedded life had elapsed; and by the time an heir was born to the house of Horsingham, probably there was no unhappier couple within fifty miles of Dangerfield than dark Sir Hugh and his pretty, fair-haired, gentle wife.
"Because I was a brute. I've told you that. And because it made me unhappier and unhappier to see you drifting away from me, and then, every time I could have done anything to draw you a little closer I'd lash out and send you farther away with my selfishness and jealousy. I didn't know it was any surprise to you. It's been the one thing you've known from the beginning " She shook her head.
He bears the penalty of his misfortunes; but he is strong enough to bear it. Let him stand it! But there are others weaker, unhappier Mother! You haven't asked me yet about the Northwicks."
"We're really no unhappier than we were when we were young." "We're more serious." "Well, I hate it; and I wish you wouldn't be so serious, if that's what it brings us to." "I will be trivial from this on," said March. "Shall we go to the Hole in the Ground to-night?" "I am going to Boston." "It's much the same thing. How do you like that for triviality? It's a little blasphemous, I'll allow."
He was sure that Angelo would not make her unhappier. "We are agreed, father," said Isabella, as she returned with Mariana. So Angelo was deceived by the girl whom he had dismissed from his love, and put on her finger a ring he wore, in which was set a milky stone which flashed in the light with secret colors.
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