Good things cease to be good in our wrong enjoyment of them. What nature meant pure sweets, are then sources of bitterness to us from such delights arise pain, from such joys, sorrows.
Good things cease to be good in our wrong enjoyment of them. What nature meant pure sweets, are then sources of bitterness to us from such delights arise pain, from such joys, sorrows.
As joy is not without its alloy of pain, so neither is sorrow without its portion of pleasure.
Reflection is the business of man a sense of his state is his first duty But who remembereth himself in joy Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us.
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