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Pagina 32
... all light and informa- tion . Arguments , though never so well grounded , do but provoke him , and make even him afraid to be convinced of the truth . He is a madman , that , to avoid a 32 MAXIMS OF THE WISE AND GOOD .
... all light and informa- tion . Arguments , though never so well grounded , do but provoke him , and make even him afraid to be convinced of the truth . He is a madman , that , to avoid a 32 MAXIMS OF THE WISE AND GOOD .
Pagina 36
... care thereof driveth away sleep . Ostentation of dignity offends more than ostenta- tion of person . To carry it high is to. AMBITION , AVARICE , AND PRODIGALITY . LAW , JUSTICE , INJURY , AND OPPRESSION . AMBITION, AVARICE, AND ...
... care thereof driveth away sleep . Ostentation of dignity offends more than ostenta- tion of person . To carry it high is to. AMBITION , AVARICE , AND PRODIGALITY . LAW , JUSTICE , INJURY , AND OPPRESSION . AMBITION, AVARICE, AND ...
Pagina 37
Maxims. tion of person . To carry it high is to make a man hated , and it is enough to be envied . Certain young men being reproved by Zeno for their prodigality , excused themselves , saying : " They had plenty enough out of which they ...
Maxims. tion of person . To carry it high is to make a man hated , and it is enough to be envied . Certain young men being reproved by Zeno for their prodigality , excused themselves , saying : " They had plenty enough out of which they ...
Pagina 49
... his reprovers are concerned , not only for his salvation , in telling him his fault , but for his reputa- tion , in telling him of it privately . — Henry . HEN thou hast no observers , be afraid of thy- ENVY AND DETRACTION . 49.
... his reprovers are concerned , not only for his salvation , in telling him his fault , but for his reputa- tion , in telling him of it privately . — Henry . HEN thou hast no observers , be afraid of thy- ENVY AND DETRACTION . 49.
Pagina 52
... tion , and in adversity he feels no despondency . " Be rather confidently bold than foolishly timorous : he that in everything fears to do well , will , at length , do ill in all . Hopes and cares , anger and fears , divide our life ...
... tion , and in adversity he feels no despondency . " Be rather confidently bold than foolishly timorous : he that in everything fears to do well , will , at length , do ill in all . Hopes and cares , anger and fears , divide our life ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Pagina 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Pagina 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Pagina 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Pagina 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Pagina 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Pagina 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.