Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.

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Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.
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London :: Printed for the author,
1664.
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Youth -- Conduct of life.
Conduct of life.
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"Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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Page 63

XXV.

I never thought him happy, who thought himself miserable; the mind is the man; if another hath what I can be without, what is he the better, or I the worse, while he wants more, and I less? he is not happy that enjoyes, but that doth not desire. Satisfaction lies not in Addition, but Substraction. A Monarch may be miserable; but content is more than a Kingdom; I can be what I will, while I will be what I can.

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