Every-day ReligionTicknor, 1886 - 464 páginas |
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... live . They seem , as has been said , to have been born fatigued . Nothing interests them . This is a species of affectation with some persons to whom it seems a mark of genius to be weary of life . They think it argues an enormous ...
... live . They seem , as has been said , to have been born fatigued . Nothing interests them . This is a species of affectation with some persons to whom it seems a mark of genius to be weary of life . They think it argues an enormous ...
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... live , " says the profound thinker , the philosopher Fichte , " we only live when we love ! " How true that is ! We must be interested in something in order to be alive , and no one can take a great deal of inter- est in himself ...
... live , " says the profound thinker , the philosopher Fichte , " we only live when we love ! " How true that is ! We must be interested in something in order to be alive , and no one can take a great deal of inter- est in himself ...
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... lives rich , we can have in ours . This principle is , to be interested in something good ; to have an object , an aim , a purpose outside of ourselves . In the great storms which have lately swept over the north Atlantic , a steamer ...
... lives rich , we can have in ours . This principle is , to be interested in something good ; to have an object , an aim , a purpose outside of ourselves . In the great storms which have lately swept over the north Atlantic , a steamer ...
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... lives in a world in which he sees nothing insignificant . These men , however , it may be said , were enthu- siasts ; they had enthusiasm for some pursuit , to which they devoted themselves . But most of us are of a more plain , common ...
... lives in a world in which he sees nothing insignificant . These men , however , it may be said , were enthu- siasts ; they had enthusiasm for some pursuit , to which they devoted themselves . But most of us are of a more plain , common ...
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... live in the half . We put part of our mind into our present work ; with the rest of our mind we are worrying about the past or the future , or imagining what other better things we might be doing . So we work in a half - and - half way ...
... live in the half . We put part of our mind into our present work ; with the rest of our mind we are worrying about the past or the future , or imagining what other better things we might be doing . So we work in a half - and - half way ...
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Página 369 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 49 - Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Página 361 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 54 - STRAHAN, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 121 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
Página 145 - Woe be to them who call good evil, and evil good placing darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter...
Página 181 - ... deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil...
Página 399 - They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Página 101 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Página 133 - Take but degree away, untune that string. And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.