Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... present , perhaps , you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances , and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day . Gain may be temporary and ...
... present , perhaps , you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances , and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day . Gain may be temporary and ...
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... present , and at- tended with immediate misery . Reason represents things to us not only as they are at present , but as they are in their whole nature and tendency ; passion only regards them in the former light . When this governs us ...
... present , and at- tended with immediate misery . Reason represents things to us not only as they are at present , but as they are in their whole nature and tendency ; passion only regards them in the former light . When this governs us ...
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... present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires . The passions , by being too much conversant with earthly objects , can never fix in us a proper com- posure and acquiescence of mind . Nothing but an indifference to the ...
... present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires . The passions , by being too much conversant with earthly objects , can never fix in us a proper com- posure and acquiescence of mind . Nothing but an indifference to the ...
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... present . There is no happiness , then , but in a virtuous and self - approving conduct . Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them , they are not the actions , and , conse quently , not the ...
... present . There is no happiness , then , but in a virtuous and self - approving conduct . Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them , they are not the actions , and , conse quently , not the ...
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... present himself to be employed ? ' " Perhaps I might , ' said Charmidas ; ' but why do you ask me this question ? ' Socrates replied , " Be- cause you are capable of managing the affairs of the republic , and nevertheless you avoid ...
... present himself to be employed ? ' " Perhaps I might , ' said Charmidas ; ' but why do you ask me this question ? ' Socrates replied , " Be- cause you are capable of managing the affairs of the republic , and nevertheless you avoid ...
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