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Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence
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Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.
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Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?
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Acquire a method of perceiving how all things change into one another.
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the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.
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No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.