 | Susanna Centlivre - 1761 - 394 sider
...— Be not taken with the glittering Dreams or Riches, their Poffeffion brings Trouble : Tranquility is a certain Equality of Mind, which no Condition of Fortune can either exalt or deprefs. If his Fortune be good, he tempers it ; if bad, he mafters it. Val. The Devil was in me, that I could... | |
 | Susanna Centlivre - 1761 - 398 sider
...—Be not taken with the glittering Dreams ct Riches. their PofTeffion brings Trouble : Tranquil,ty is a certain Equality of Mind, which no Condition of Fortune can either exalt or depreis. 1f his Fortune be good, he tempers it; if bad, he mailers it. Val. The Devil was in me, that... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (le Jeune.) - 1807 - 410 sider
...reach ; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. Tranquillity is a certain...which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress. Nothing can make it less, for it is the state of human perfection: It raises us as high as... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1818 - 516 sider
...but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search forj without finding it. Tranquillity is a certain equality...which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress. Nothing can make it less, for it is the state ef human perfection; it raises us as high as... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 sider
...; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in tbe dark, we fall foul uj>on the very thing \ve search for without finding it. "Tranquillity is a certain...which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress." Nothing can make it less : for it is the state of human perfection: it raises us as high... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 sider
...and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for without finding it. 8 " Tranquillity is a certain equality of mind, which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress." " True joy is a serene and sober motion;" and they are miserably out that take laughing for... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 sider
...and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for without finding it. 8 " Tranquillity is a certain equality of mind, which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress." " True joy is a serene and sober motion ;" and they are miserably out that take laughing... | |
 | Sir Roger Lestrange, Knt. - 1855 - 668 sider
...reach ; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for without finding it. " Tranquillity is a certain...which no condition of fortune can either exalt or dcpn Nothing can make it less : for it is the state of human perfection : it raises us as high as we... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sider
...reach ; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, wo fall foul upon the very thing we search at not a single stone can be removed from its position...tearing away its protecting safeguard. In ' proof depress." Nothing can make it less, for it is the state of human perfection ; it raises us as high... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 sider
...strong in Hopes nor too weak in Fears, but to be reasonably satisfied with what we justly possess ; that Tranquillity is a certain equality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress, for it is the state of HUMAN PERFECTION ; as it raises us as high as we can go, and makes... | |
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... for he that is so, wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach ; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. Tranquillity is a certain... 
