It Is A Shame For The Soul

All Things Are The Same, Familiar In Enterprise, Momentary In Endurance, Coarse In Substance. All Things Now Are As They Were In The Day Of Those Whom We Have Buried.

Reflect Frequently Upon The Instability Of Things, And How Very Fast The Scenes Of Nature Are Shifted. Matter Is In Perpetual Flux. Change Is Always And Everywhere At Work; It Strikes Through Causes And Effects, And Leaves Nothing Fixed And Permanent.

To A Rational Being It Is The Same Thing To Act According To Nature And According To Reason.

Do Not Suffer A Sudden Impression To Overbear Your Judgment.

Whatever May Happen To Thee, It Was Prepared For Thee From All Eternity.