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To controul your desires is to acquire riches, he who can proportion them to his circumstances has more real enjoyment than the rich prodigal whose unhappiness arises from his not being able to confine his pleasures within the means of gratification be [[unclear]] of deserving praise but not of acquiring a power & a wealth that are transient. --- I fancy that happiness suffers more frequently from delusive hope than absolute despair; those who are blessed with unforeseen lucky events receive an encrease of satisfaction, in proportion to the lowness of their expectation, & those whom hopeful appearances deceive have the less height to fall when prudence has restrained the flight of expectation
