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... WEALTH , LUXURY , AND THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE ... ... 171 ... ... 172 ... 174 182 WOMAN , LOVE , AND MARRIAGE ... ... ... ... ... 188 TRUTH , LYING , AND DISSIMULATION ... DRUNKENNESS AND INTEMPERANCE ... TIME , BUSINESS , AND ...
... WEALTH , LUXURY , AND THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE ... ... 171 ... ... 172 ... 174 182 WOMAN , LOVE , AND MARRIAGE ... ... ... ... ... 188 TRUTH , LYING , AND DISSIMULATION ... DRUNKENNESS AND INTEMPERANCE ... TIME , BUSINESS , AND ...
Pagina 7
... WEALTH , LUXURY , AND THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE ... ... ... 174 182 WOMAN , LOVE , AND MARRIAGE ... ... ... ... 188 TRUTH , LYING , AND DISSIMULATION DRUNKENNESS AND INTEMPERANCE ... TIME , BUSINESS , AND RECREATION RETIREMENT AND PRIVATE ...
... WEALTH , LUXURY , AND THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE ... ... ... 174 182 WOMAN , LOVE , AND MARRIAGE ... ... ... ... 188 TRUTH , LYING , AND DISSIMULATION DRUNKENNESS AND INTEMPERANCE ... TIME , BUSINESS , AND RECREATION RETIREMENT AND PRIVATE ...
Pagina 28
... wealth , loseth much ; he who loseth a friend , loseth more ; but he who loseth his spirits , loseth all . Beware of suretyship for thy best friends . He that payeth another man's debts seeketh his own decay . -Lord Burleigh . Meek ...
... wealth , loseth much ; he who loseth a friend , loseth more ; but he who loseth his spirits , loseth all . Beware of suretyship for thy best friends . He that payeth another man's debts seeketh his own decay . -Lord Burleigh . Meek ...
Pagina 39
... wealth , as that may be said to possess him . Other vices choose to be in the dark ; only pride loves always to be seen in the light . Seneca observes well , that it is the constant fault AMBITION , AVARICE , AND PRODIGALITY . 39.
... wealth , as that may be said to possess him . Other vices choose to be in the dark ; only pride loves always to be seen in the light . Seneca observes well , that it is the constant fault AMBITION , AVARICE , AND PRODIGALITY . 39.
Pagina 57
... wealthy enough that wanteth not . He is great enough that is his own master . He is happy enough that lives to die well . Other things I will not care for , says Judge Hale , nor too much for these , save only for the last , which alone ...
... wealthy enough that wanteth not . He is great enough that is his own master . He is happy enough that lives to die well . Other things I will not care for , says Judge Hale , nor too much for these , save only for the last , which alone ...
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affliction Antisthenes Aristotle atheist beauty better Bible blessing charity Christ Christian Cicero comfort command conscience contempt covetous Cyneas dangerous death desire divine doth duty Eight Illustrations enemy envy Epicurus esteemed eternal evil excellent faith favour fear Feltham flatterer folly fool fortune FRANCIS QUARLES friendship give glory God's grace greatest happy hath heart heaven HENRY WARD BEECHER honour hope human humility idle JAMES BLACKWOOD John Newton kind Kind-The Know thyself labour learning lest live Lord Lord Anson loseth Lovell's Court man's mercy mind miserable moral nature never ourselves passion Paternoster Row Plato pleasure POETICAL poor poverty praise prayer pride prudence reason receive religion repentance reputation revenge rich Scripture sorrow soul speak spirit suffer temper thee things thou thought tion true truth vanity vice virtue virtuous wealth William Monson wisdom wise words Xenophon young
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.