 ... indeed, (who might say nay) gloomy and hypochondriac minds, inhabitants of diseased bodies, disgusted with the present, and despairing of the future; always counting that the worst will happen, because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Side 425av Henry Stephens Randall - 1868Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
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...that sorrow came even to the optimistic prompted Jefferson to interrogate the moral purpose of pain: I have often wondered for what good end the sensations...All our other passions, within proper bounds, have an useful object. And the perfection of the moral character is, not in a Stoical apathy, so hypocritically... | |
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