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Life, In All Ranks And Situations, Is An Outward Occupation, An Actual And Active Work.

Coercion May Prevent Many Transgressions; But It Robs Even Actions Which Are Legal Of A Part Of Their Beauty. Freedom May Lead To Many Transgressions, But It Lends Even To Vices A Less Ignoble Form.

Results Are Nothing; The Energies Which Produce Them And Which Again Spring From Them Are Everything.

When We Are Not Too Anxious About Happiness And Unhappiness, But Devote Ourselves To The Strict And Unsparing Performance Of Duty, Then Happiness Comes Of Itself - Nay, Even Springs From The Midst Of A Life Of Troubles And Anxieties And Privations.

Women Are In This Respect More Fortunate Than Men, That Most Of Their Employments Are Of Such A Nature That They Can At The Same Time Be Thinking Of Quite Different Things.