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" Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows... "
The Rambler - Page 440
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond thegrave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion....man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as ue declines into imbecillity, and feels pains find sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulph of bottomless misery, in which every reflection...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulph of bottomless misery, in which every reflection...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted ; all the events or actions, of which the memory can afford pleasure, are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond...can be reached only by virtue and devotion. PIETY, therefore, is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...; the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions which tin* memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulph of bottomless misery, in which every reflection...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted ; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure, are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond...man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as hgf declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted ; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure, are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can ho reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decayisg man....
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Ethics for youth, by a member of the Church of England

Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...with innumerable partners, and that he is left unmarked in the obscurity of the crowd. No. 333.] AGE. PIETY is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hope, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls...
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