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... bring unto , is the contentment of the mind ; with which no estate can be poor ; without which all estates will re miser- able . - Sir P. Sidney . CONTENTMENT , ITS EFFECTS.- -If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a ...
... bring unto , is the contentment of the mind ; with which no estate can be poor ; without which all estates will re miser- able . - Sir P. Sidney . CONTENTMENT , ITS EFFECTS.- -If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a ...
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Tryon Edwards. not bring riches , it does the same thing by banishing the do sire of them . If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising from a man's mind , body , or fortune , it makes him easy un- der them .-- Addison . CONTENTMENT ITS ...
Tryon Edwards. not bring riches , it does the same thing by banishing the do sire of them . If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising from a man's mind , body , or fortune , it makes him easy un- der them .-- Addison . CONTENTMENT ITS ...
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... bring our proportion of good will or good humor among the friends we meet with , and not to trouble them with relations which must of necessity oblige them to a real or feigned affliction . Cares , distresses , diseases , uneasinesses ...
... bring our proportion of good will or good humor among the friends we meet with , and not to trouble them with relations which must of necessity oblige them to a real or feigned affliction . Cares , distresses , diseases , uneasinesses ...
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... bring back to its original signification of virtue , I mean good - nature , are of daily use ; they are the bread of mankind , and staff of life . -Dryden . COURTESY . - The knowledge of courtesy and good man- ners is a very necessary ...
... bring back to its original signification of virtue , I mean good - nature , are of daily use ; they are the bread of mankind , and staff of life . -Dryden . COURTESY . - The knowledge of courtesy and good man- ners is a very necessary ...
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... bringing about even those events which he might have done , had he passed only for a plain man . Discretion is the perfection of reason , and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct , that only looks out ...
... bringing about even those events which he might have done , had he passed only for a plain man . Discretion is the perfection of reason , and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct , that only looks out ...
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