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To act is far easier than to suffer; yet we every day see the progress of life retarded by the vis inertiae, the mere 9571______ to motion, and find multitudes repining at the want of that which nothing but idleness 9572____ them from enjoying. The case of Tantalus, in the region of poetic punishment, was somewhat to be pitied, because the fruits that hung about him retired from his hand; but what tenderness can be claimed by those who, though perhaps they suffer the pains of Tantalus, will never lift their hands for their own relief?
There is nothing more common among this 9573____ generation than murmurs and complaints; murmurs at uneasiness which only vacancy and suspicion expose them to feel, and complaints of distresses which it is in their own 9579_____ to remove. Laziness is commonly associated with timidity. Either fear originally prohibits 9574______ by infusing despair of success; or the frequent failure of irresolute 9580_______s, and the constant desire of 9578_____ing labour, impress by degrees false terror on the mind. But fear, whether natural or acquired, when once it has full possession of the fancy, never fails to employ it upon visions of 9575______, such as, if they are not dissipated by useful employment, will soon 9576_____ it with horrors, and imbitter life not only with those miseries by which all earthly beings are really more or less tormented, but with those which do not yet exist, and which can only be 9577_____ by the perspicacity of cowardice
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