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Introduction. Picture of a Sentimentalist - of a man of action. Action a universal law of Nature. Man's high est pleasure consists in overcoming difficulties and per forming noble deeds. Ease, luxury, pleasure, wealth, may be inherited or purchased; but each man must ac quire his own knowledge. Our faculties, physical, mo ral, and intellectual, decay in idleness, but improve with exercise. In What happiness consists. Life grows sweeter as it advances: but they are favoured of Hea ven who die before their faculties begin to decay: for life is measured not by the number of our years, but by the use we have made of them.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, By howell evans, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 1334671001
- ISBN 13 9781334671005
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages38
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