Exert from a sentimental journey on nature happiness and suffering.

Exert from a sentimental journey on nature happiness and suffering.

Meaning of life.

Sterne says Creation made a chaotic world full of suffering, yet it gave us the ability to work together to overcome these barriers to create happiness.

Laurence Sterne

Sterne, Laurence. Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, The Floating Press, 1892. ProQuest Ebook Central,
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The Floating Press

1768

Michael Einhorn

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English

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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy It must have been observed by many a peripatetic philosopher

It must have been observed by many a peripatetic philosopher, That nature has set up by her own unquestionable authority certain boundaries and fences to circumscribe the discontent of man; she has effected her purpose in the quietest and easiest manner by laying him under almost insuperable obligations to work out his ease, and to sustain his sufferings at home. It is there only that she has provided him with the most suitable objects to partake of his happiness, and bear a part of that burden which in all countries and ages has ever been too heavy for one pair of shoulders. 'Tis true, we are endued with an imperfect power of spreading our happiness sometimes beyond HER limits, but 'tis so ordered, that, from the want of languages, connections, and dependencies, and from the difference in education, customs, and habits, we lie under so many impediments in communicating our sensations out of our own sphere, as often amount to a total impossibility.

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