 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 504 pages
...in others ; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom go together. " ' What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 397 pages
...in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together. " What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wishedfor comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | S. R. Winchell - 1908 - 200 pages
...guilt and disgrace, stop where you are. The past and the present call on you to advance." " What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...make realities correspond with their conceptions." (a) Under this rule the first word of a paragraph, chapter, essay, treatise, or book will begin with... | |
 | George Herbert Perris - Germany - 1912 - 536 pages
...justification, this may stand, but it makes a 'lame gospel. " What is it," asks Wilhelm Meister,1 " that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions ; that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | J W Von Goethe - Fiction - 1917 - 638 pages
...himself in others; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together. "What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation?...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1925 - 388 pages
...of himself in others; the harmonious conjunctiqinsfTnany thfng5~th~at will seldom exist together.; their hands, that the wished for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect -which their longing for it at a distance led them to... | |
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What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation ? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from... 
