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e streets in chains, and yet retain the iet..soul of a philosopher, as was well en in the person of Epictetus. A man ay have every worldly prize in his posssion, and stand absolute master of his ersonal fate, to all appearance, and yet e knows no peace, no certainty, because e is shaken within himself by every de of thought that he touches on. And hese changing tides do not merely, sweep he man bodily hither and thither like riftwood on the water; that would be othing.. They enter into the gateways of is soul, and wash over that soul, and ake it blind and blank and void of all ermanent intelligence, so that passing mpressions affect it.
To make my meaning plainer I will use n illustration. Take an author at his riting, a painter at his canvas, a comoser listening to the melodies that dawn
pon his glad imagination; let any one
f these workers pass his daily hours by
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