World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... happiness by chang- ing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove . - Johnson . CONTENTMENT MUST BE WITHIN . - Alas ! if the principles of ...
... happiness by chang- ing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove . - Johnson . CONTENTMENT MUST BE WITHIN . - Alas ! if the principles of ...
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... happiness which he aims at , ever at a distance . has perpetually many things to do , and many things to pro- vide ; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.— Balguy . He DESIRES , TO BE CONFORMED TO OUR CONDITION . - It should be ...
... happiness which he aims at , ever at a distance . has perpetually many things to do , and many things to pro- vide ; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.— Balguy . He DESIRES , TO BE CONFORMED TO OUR CONDITION . - It should be ...
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... happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove . - Col- ton . DISPOSITIONS , UNHAPPY . - Envy's memory is nothing but a row of ...
... happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove . - Col- ton . DISPOSITIONS , UNHAPPY . - Envy's memory is nothing but a row of ...
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... happiness of any living creature . It did not make Augustus respect the life of Cicero , nor the pupil of Aristotle to restrain his passions . If undirected by virtue , knowledge is but the servant of vice , and tends only to evil ...
... happiness of any living creature . It did not make Augustus respect the life of Cicero , nor the pupil of Aristotle to restrain his passions . If undirected by virtue , knowledge is but the servant of vice , and tends only to evil ...
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... happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery . — Burton . EMPLOYMENT . The safe and general antidote against sorrow , is employment . It is commonly observed , that among soldiers and seamen , though there is ...
... happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery . — Burton . EMPLOYMENT . The safe and general antidote against sorrow , is employment . It is commonly observed , that among soldiers and seamen , though there is ...
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