The Rule of Life: Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences ...Parsons & Hills, 1834 - 264 sider |
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Side 35
... happiness in giving than in re- ceiving , he has never experienced . Pride had rather at any time go out of the way , than come behind . When Darius offered Alexander 10,000 talents , to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , The ...
... happiness in giving than in re- ceiving , he has never experienced . Pride had rather at any time go out of the way , than come behind . When Darius offered Alexander 10,000 talents , to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , The ...
Side 37
... happiness . his torment ; whereas he that rejoiceth at the prosperity of another , is partaker of the same , Ill nature is a contradiction to the laws of prov , idence , and the interest of mankind ; it is a pun- ishment no less than a ...
... happiness . his torment ; whereas he that rejoiceth at the prosperity of another , is partaker of the same , Ill nature is a contradiction to the laws of prov , idence , and the interest of mankind ; it is a pun- ishment no less than a ...
Side 46
... happiness is the best relief of anxious thoughts , the most perfect cure of melancholy , the guide of life , and the comfort of death . Turkish Spy . Hopes and cares , anger and fears , divide our life . Would you be free from these ...
... happiness is the best relief of anxious thoughts , the most perfect cure of melancholy , the guide of life , and the comfort of death . Turkish Spy . Hopes and cares , anger and fears , divide our life . Would you be free from these ...
Side 49
... happiness or calamity of human life , by false lights : a strict inquiry into the truth of matters , will help us in the one , and comparison will set us right in the other . As nothing is so honorable as an ancient friend- ship 3 ...
... happiness or calamity of human life , by false lights : a strict inquiry into the truth of matters , will help us in the one , and comparison will set us right in the other . As nothing is so honorable as an ancient friend- ship 3 ...
Side 70
... happier than himself ? The or- acle answered , Aglaius ; who was a poor Arca- dian , contented with a little . He that can endure , may overcome . The consideration of a great evil , is a sort of remedy against a small one . Aristippus ...
... happier than himself ? The or- acle answered , Aglaius ; who was a poor Arca- dian , contented with a little . He that can endure , may overcome . The consideration of a great evil , is a sort of remedy against a small one . Aristippus ...
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actions adversity Æsop affliction Alexander Severus Aristippus Aristotle Atheism Aurel beauty better body Charron Cicero conscience contempt conversation dangerous death discourse divine Dr Fuller duty enemy envy Epictetus esteem eternity Euripides Evermond evil excellent fault fear five crowns flatter folly fool fortune friendship give glory Gracian greatest happiness hath heart heaven honor human Isocrates judgment know thyself knowledge L'd Bacon L'Estrange learning live Lord Bacon man's mankind merit mind miserable modesty Montaigne moral nature ness never noble obliged ourselves passions Paul Leicester Ford perfection persons philosophy Plato pleasure Plut Plutarch praise precepts pride privy counsellor prosperity prudence Pythagoras reason religion reputation revenge rich says Seneca sense Shaftsbury Sherlock Socrates soul speak Spec Spectator suffer Tatler temper thee thing thou thought tion tongue true truth Vespasian vice virtue virtuous wealth whig wisdom wise worth
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Side 250 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Side 213 - 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...
Side 190 - We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
Side 15 - 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.
Side 206 - The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the man of fortune, are great reliefs to a country life, and many ways useful to those who are possessed of them. But of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Side 248 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Side 224 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Side 71 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.
Side 37 - A strange thing that that part of an orator which is but superficial and rather the virtue of a player should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.