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Pagina 15
... true virtue . Wise men ought circumspectly to see what they do , to examine before they speak , to prove before they take in hand , to beware whose company they use , and above all things to whom they trust . - C . Bailey's Inscription ...
... true virtue . Wise men ought circumspectly to see what they do , to examine before they speak , to prove before they take in hand , to beware whose company they use , and above all things to whom they trust . - C . Bailey's Inscription ...
Pagina 26
... true pleasure of temperance , and the many benefits that follow sobriety , cannot be imagined by those that lead riotous lives ; so neither can the sweet influences thereof be enjoyed without self - denial , and some trouble to old Adam ...
... true pleasure of temperance , and the many benefits that follow sobriety , cannot be imagined by those that lead riotous lives ; so neither can the sweet influences thereof be enjoyed without self - denial , and some trouble to old Adam ...
Pagina 57
... been surmounted , is greater in the end . Quietness and peace flourish where reason and justice govern ; and true joy reigneth where modesty directeth . A mediocrity of fortune , with a gentleness of mind 5 GOVERNMENT OF THE PASSIONS . 57.
... been surmounted , is greater in the end . Quietness and peace flourish where reason and justice govern ; and true joy reigneth where modesty directeth . A mediocrity of fortune , with a gentleness of mind 5 GOVERNMENT OF THE PASSIONS . 57.
Pagina 58
... True quietness of heart is got by resisting our passions , not by obeying them . It is not treasure or power that lays either the head or the heart at rest ; but a quiet conscience , and the candid simplicity of a tender mind . Youth ...
... True quietness of heart is got by resisting our passions , not by obeying them . It is not treasure or power that lays either the head or the heart at rest ; but a quiet conscience , and the candid simplicity of a tender mind . Youth ...
Pagina 69
... the name and character of one . If our painful peregrination in studies be destitute of the supreme light , it is nothing else but a miser- able kind of wandering . “ True philosophy , " says Plato , " consists HUMAN LEARNING . 69.
... the name and character of one . If our painful peregrination in studies be destitute of the supreme light , it is nothing else but a miser- able kind of wandering . “ True philosophy , " says Plato , " consists HUMAN LEARNING . 69.
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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.