Different things delight different people; but it is my delight to keep the ruling faculty sound without turning away either from any man or from any of the things which happen to men, but looking at and receiving all with welcome eyes and using everything according to its value.
From his personal reflections, describing his preferred way of living and engaging with the world.
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And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
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