On the contrary, Religion bears a more tender Regard to humane Nature. It prescribes to every miserable Man the Means of bettering his Condition; nay, it shews him, that the bearing of his Afflictions as he ought to do will naturally end in the Removal of them: It makes him easie here, because it can make him happy hereafter.
Upon the whole, a contented Mind is the greatest Blessing a Man can enjoy in this World; and if in the present Life his Happiness arises from the subduing of his De
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es, it will arise in the next from the Gratification of them.
| [No. 575] | Monday, August 2, 1714 | Addison |
—Nec merti esse locum—
Virg.
A lewd young Fellow seeing an aged Hermit go by him barefoot,
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