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... reason , which however powerfully exerted on any particular occasion , will probably comprehend but a partial view of the subject ; and our conduct in life as well as in the Arts , is , or ought to be , generally governed by this ...
... reason , which however powerfully exerted on any particular occasion , will probably comprehend but a partial view of the subject ; and our conduct in life as well as in the Arts , is , or ought to be , generally governed by this ...
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... reason , it is sometimes internally reasonable to act outside reason itself . Hope , for example , has a reason for its own irrational persistence : We are unhappy , at least less happy than our nature seems to admit ; we necessarily ...
... reason , it is sometimes internally reasonable to act outside reason itself . Hope , for example , has a reason for its own irrational persistence : We are unhappy , at least less happy than our nature seems to admit ; we necessarily ...
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... reason need not be in divisive conflict : a person could hold himself together and find one thing dynamically becoming another if passion , via reason , could be virtue : In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fixed ; ' tis fixed ...
... reason need not be in divisive conflict : a person could hold himself together and find one thing dynamically becoming another if passion , via reason , could be virtue : In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fixed ; ' tis fixed ...
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Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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