"A Good Conscience is to the Soul what Health is to the Body; It preserves a constant Ease and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can possibly befall us."
— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
August 15, 1713
Metaphor
"A Good Conscience is to the Soul what Health is to the Body; It preserves a constant Ease and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can possibly befall us."
Metaphor in Context
A Good Conscience is to the Soul what Health is to the Body; It preserves a constant Ease and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can possibly befall us. I know nothing so hard for a generous Mind to get over as Calumny and Reproach, and cannot find any Method of quieting the Soul under them, besides this single one, of our being conscious to our selves that we do not deserve them.
(p. 450)
(p. 450)
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Reading
Citation
Stephens, John Calhoun, ed. The Guardian (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1982): 450-2.
Date of Entry
12/14/2010
