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... feel .-- Graves . COMPLAISANCE . Complaisance pleases all ; prejudices none ; adorns wit ; renders humor agreeable ; augments friendship ; redoubles love ; and united with justice and gen- erosity , becomes the secret chain of the ...
... feel .-- Graves . COMPLAISANCE . Complaisance pleases all ; prejudices none ; adorns wit ; renders humor agreeable ; augments friendship ; redoubles love ; and united with justice and gen- erosity , becomes the secret chain of the ...
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... feeling of the offender . - Burton . CONSCIENCE , A GOOD .-- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body ; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us , and more than countervails all the calam- ities and ...
... feeling of the offender . - Burton . CONSCIENCE , A GOOD .-- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body ; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us , and more than countervails all the calam- ities and ...
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... feel no inclination to change employments .-- John Newton . CONTENTMENT . - The highest point outward things can bring unto , is the contentment of the mind ; with which no estate can be poor ; without which all estates will re miser ...
... feel no inclination to change employments .-- John Newton . CONTENTMENT . - The highest point outward things can bring unto , is the contentment of the mind ; with which no estate can be poor ; without which all estates will re miser ...
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... feel our deficiencies more and more till we lose them . DEFINITION . - All arts acknowledge , that then only we know certainly , when we can define ; for definition is that which refines the pure essence of things from the circum ...
... feel our deficiencies more and more till we lose them . DEFINITION . - All arts acknowledge , that then only we know certainly , when we can define ; for definition is that which refines the pure essence of things from the circum ...
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... feeling , and an atom a shadow . DISPOSITION . The man who has so little knowledge of human nature , as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs ...
... feeling , and an atom a shadow . DISPOSITION . The man who has so little knowledge of human nature , as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs ...
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