A Convenience for Anytime 1
The conveniences have had their campaigners throughout the years and centuries, those writers who encourage other to do good deeds.Convenience scholars do not dismiss these writings because of their activist messaging, but the texts are considered a specific subgenre of conveniences.
A Convenience for Any Time
The comfort which derives from service is quite free
Anytime Convenience 33 - Interested and Curious People
This convenience writer encourages curiosity as a remedy for depression.She maintains that interests can woo the mind from dark and brooding thoughts, that curiosity can pull focus away from the troubled self.
Anytime Convenience 33
From time unknown
the secret of feeling independent of gloom
is found in interested and curious people.
Anytime Convenience 63 - Restrain Unpleasant Barbs
This Anytime Convenience writer recommends moderating discourse.She suggests that refraining from unpleasant speech is an act which contributes to serenity.But serenity for whom?Most convenience scholars propose that the idea of harmful speech being injurious to others is implicit in this convenience.The same scholars also agree with the Convenience spiritual community that this writer primarily focuses on the speaker's agency and the consequences of the agency for the speaker [emphasis mine].
Anytime Convenience 63
Restrain from unpleasant barbs.
This modification is necessary for
the peace of the soul
and
the happiness of the heart.
Anytime Especial Convenience 17 Pull Instead of Push
Especial Convenience 17 - Pull Instead of Push
I have many, but this is one of my favorite Conveniences, composed by one of my favorite Convenience writers.Her true identity is unknown to scholars, although the composition and content of her writings suggest that she was composing in the last quarter of the 19th century.This writer advises attracting clients rather than pushing opinions and services onto those we might seek to help.Her graphic of two women talking tells Convenience scholars that this Convenience writer advocates friendship as motivation for helping another.She goes further when she states that attraction has a far less tendency to harm those seeking help, and her final statement reiterates that friendship, "like parts," is by far [emphasis mine] the best way to approach others.
Especial Convenience 17
pull instead of push
in pulling there is little tendency to injure
The best way is to make like parts
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