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... fortune and opinion , that it is the wealth of nature ; for it gives every thing that we want , and really need . Prosperity has always been the cause of far greater evils to men , than adversity and it is easier for a man to bear this ...
... fortune and opinion , that it is the wealth of nature ; for it gives every thing that we want , and really need . Prosperity has always been the cause of far greater evils to men , than adversity and it is easier for a man to bear this ...
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Maxims. ; Wealth and titles are only the gifts of fortune but peace and content are the peculiar endowments of a well disposed mind ; a mind that can bear affliction without a murmur , and the weight of a plentiful fortune without vain ...
Maxims. ; Wealth and titles are only the gifts of fortune but peace and content are the peculiar endowments of a well disposed mind ; a mind that can bear affliction without a murmur , and the weight of a plentiful fortune without vain ...
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... fortunes are ( if reason be not consulted ) the subject of a wise man's pity . The foundation of content must spring up in a man's own mind ; and he who has so little know- ledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any ...
... fortunes are ( if reason be not consulted ) the subject of a wise man's pity . The foundation of content must spring up in a man's own mind ; and he who has so little know- ledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any ...
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... no matter how few , so they be discreet and virtuous . Wealth without friends is like life without health : the one an uncomfortable fortune ; the other a miserable being . Friendship can never suffer so much by any other kind 20.
... no matter how few , so they be discreet and virtuous . Wealth without friends is like life without health : the one an uncomfortable fortune ; the other a miserable being . Friendship can never suffer so much by any other kind 20.
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... fortune . A true friend unbosoms freely , advises justly , assists readily , adventures boldly , takes all patiently , defends courageously , and continues a friend un- changeable . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a ...
... fortune . A true friend unbosoms freely , advises justly , assists readily , adventures boldly , takes all patiently , defends courageously , and continues a friend un- changeable . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a ...
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الصفحة 115 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 7 - THE Liberty of a people consists in being governed by Laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of Government. The Liberty of a private man in being Master of his own Time and Actions, as far as may consist with the Laws of God and of his Country. Of this latter only we are here to discourse, and to enquire what estate of Life does best seat us in the possession of it.
الصفحة 107 - Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth...
الصفحة 194 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
الصفحة 108 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
الصفحة 206 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
الصفحة 113 - There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother.
الصفحة 106 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my Friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
الصفحة 16 - A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us.
الصفحة 23 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.