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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will
reap the advantage of it.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will
reap the advantage of it.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
