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without any fault of our own, and in which we behave with perfect propriety? There can, therefore, be no evil, but, on the contrary, the greatest good and ad|vantage. A brave man exults in those dangers, in which, from no rashness of his own, his fortune has involved him. They afford an opportunity of exercising that heroic intrepidity, whose exertion gives the exalted delight which flows from the consciousness of superior propriety and deserved admiration. One who is master of all his exercises has no aversion to mea|sure his strength and activity with the strongest. And in the same manner, one who is master of all his passions, does not dread any circumstance in which the su|perintendent of the universe may think proper to place him. The bounty of that divine being has provided him with vir|••ues which render him superior to every ••ituation. If it is pleasure, he has temper|ance to refrain from it; if it is pain, he has constancy to bear it; if it is danger or death, he has magnanimity and fortitude ••o despise it. He never complains of the destiny of providence, nor thinks the uni|verse in confusion when he is out of order.
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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