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... happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to ...
... happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to ...
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... happiness of every man , depends more upon the state of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance : nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from ...
... happiness of every man , depends more upon the state of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance : nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from ...
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... happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence , by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow . It ought ...
... happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence , by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow . It ought ...
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... happiness intemperance , by enervating them , ends gener- ally in misery . Title and ancestry , render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue , honourable ...
... happiness intemperance , by enervating them , ends gener- ally in misery . Title and ancestry , render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue , honourable ...
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... happiness , is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it sooths their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue , and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ...
... happiness , is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it sooths their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue , and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ...
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The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.