Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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