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So Battenhouse secularized at progresso.co.jp
Sat Apr 10 10:50:57 UTC 2010


Tivates this virtue unostentatiously will always be protected from the
caprices of fortune; if he is poor, common sense
will indicate to him the way to cease to be
poor, and, if chance has given him birth in opulence, the counsels of
experience will demonstrate to him the frailty of possessions that one
has not acquired by personal effort." This conclusion is strikingly
true, for it is certain that prosperity attained by personal effort is
less likely to fade away than an inherited fortune, whose owner can only
understand the ordinary pleasure of a possession which he has not
ardently desired. He who is the maker of his own position is more able
to maintain
it; he knows the price of the efforts which he had to make in order to
construct it, and, armed with common sense, he is as able to defend his
treasure as to enjoy
the sweet savor of a thing which he has desired, longed for,
and won by the force of his will and judgment, placed at the
service of circumstances and directed toward success. LESSON XI COMMON
SENSE AND SELF-CONTROL "Where life
manifests itself," says Yoritomo, "antagonism always springs up." "In
the
eternal struggle between the
individual and social soul, each
of which, in its turn, is victorious

or vanquished, a truce is declared only if self-control is allied to
common sense, in order to maintain the equilibrium between individual
sentiment, natural to each one of us, and the ideas of mankind
as a whole. "All classes
of society are


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