Volume Ii Part 30 (2/2)

MEDICINE OF THE SOUL.-To lie still and think little is the cheapest medicine for all diseases of the soul, and, with the aid of good-will, becomes pleasanter every hour that it is used.

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INTELLECTUAL ORDER OF PRECEDENCE.-You rank far below others when you try to establish the exception and they the rule.

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THE FATALIST.-You must believe in fate-science can compel you thereto. All that develops in you out of that belief-cowardice, devotion or loftiness, and uprightness-bears witness to the soil in which the grain was sown, but not to the grain itself, for from that seed anything and everything can grow.

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THE REASON FOR MUCH FRETFULNESS.-He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

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EXCESS AS A REMEDY.-We can make our own talent once more acceptable to ourselves by honouring and enjoying the opposite talent for some time to excess.-Using excess as a remedy is one of the more refined devices in the art of life.

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”WILL A SELF.”-Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, ”Know thyself,” but as if always confronted with the command, ”Will a self, so you will become a self.”-Fate seems always to have left them a choice. Inactive, contemplative natures, on the other hand, reflect on how they have chosen their self ”once for all” at their entry into life.

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