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Title Page
Contents
Volume 2
Untitled
1. "I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."
2. Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness - Immanuel Kant.
3. "And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
4. The happiness of life is made of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
5. "...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness."
6. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
7. "Envy is a declaration of inferiority."
8. "To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune."
9. "Desperate affairs require desperate measures."
10. "Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
11. "Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends."
12. "The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person."
13. "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
14. "How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!"
15. No legacy is so rich as honesty.
16. Loves quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
17. "Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end."
18. The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
19. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
20. Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all
21. A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
22. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
23. The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication the third of disgust
24. The greatest pleasure of life is love.
25. There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
26. "The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance."
27. "Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love."
28. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
29. Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Footnotes
Thank you For Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Deborah E Pearson
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