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" In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? "
The thoughts of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, tr. by G. Long - Page 106
by emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1869
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1865 - 334 pages
...translates thus : — " In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present : I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am...this, to lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm 1 — But this is more pleasant. — Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all for...
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Essays in Criticism, Issue 13

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1865 - 332 pages
...Long translates thus:— " In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am...I exist and for which I was brought into the world 1 Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm ?—But this is more...
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...translates thus :— ' In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present : I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am...pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion?' Jeremy Collier has: — ' When you find an unwillingness to rise early .in the morning, make this short...
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Indian Wisdom, Or, Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical ...

Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hindu philosophy - 1875 - 608 pages
...iv. 15, Col. iii. 13. 'In the morning when thou risest unwillingly let these thoughts be present, " I am rising to the work of a human being. Why, then,...I exist and for which I was brought into the world ?" Dost thou exist, then, to take thy pleasure, and not for action or exertion ] Dost thou not see...
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Indian Wisdom, Or, Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical ...

Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hindu philosophy - 1875 - 624 pages
...15, CoL iii. 13. '!• the morning when thou riscst unwillingly let these thoughts be present, " 1 am rising to the work of a human being. Why, then, am I di«ati»fied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I wai brought into the...
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Seekers After God

Frederic William Farrar - Philosophers, Ancient - 1877 - 370 pages
...formula : — " In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let these thoughts be present — ' I am rising to the work of a human being. Why, then,...myself warm ?' ' But this is more pleasant.' Dost tlwu exist, then, to take thy pleasure, and not for action or exertion ? Dost thou not see the little...
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The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Ethics - 1880 - 262 pages
...Fffrliviot anrtnt Nforwp. V. IN the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am...world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bedslothes and keep myself warm ? — But this is more pleasant — Dost thou exist then to take thy...
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The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1880 - 234 pages
...am rising to Jhe_york of ajruman N^ being._ Wh^then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the thmgs for which I exist and for which I was brought into...world? Or have I been made for this. to lie in the bed' olothes and keep myself warm ?—But this is more pleasant— Dost thou exist then to take thy...
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1883 - 404 pages
...translates thus : — "In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present : I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am...bedclothes and keep myself warm? — But this is more x.] MARCUS AURELIUS. 351 pleasant. — Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all for...
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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 1

John Lord - Biography - 1883 - 494 pages
...in the morning unwillingly, say, ' I am rising to the work of a human being; why, then, should I be dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I was brought into the world?'" "Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from this life this very...
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