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Side 6
... CONVERSATION , AND DEPORTMENT ... ... ... 110 THE GENEROUS MIND ... ... ... ... ... ... 122 BENEFITS , GRATITUDE , AND INGRATITUDE ... ... ... 129 WIVES ... ... ... ... ... ... 132 THE SABBATH ... DEATH AND ETERNITY HEAVEN ...
... CONVERSATION , AND DEPORTMENT ... ... ... 110 THE GENEROUS MIND ... ... ... ... ... ... 122 BENEFITS , GRATITUDE , AND INGRATITUDE ... ... ... 129 WIVES ... ... ... ... ... ... 132 THE SABBATH ... DEATH AND ETERNITY HEAVEN ...
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... conversation , living studies ; and remarks upon them are your best tutors . An illiterate person is the world in darkness , and like to Polyphemus's statue with the eye out . I envy none that know more than myself , but pity them that ...
... conversation , living studies ; and remarks upon them are your best tutors . An illiterate person is the world in darkness , and like to Polyphemus's statue with the eye out . I envy none that know more than myself , but pity them that ...
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... conversation is the most delightful method of gaining knowledge . Did we but use it as we ought , This world would school each wand'ring thought To its high state , Up to that better world on high , For which we wait . Manrique . Live ...
... conversation is the most delightful method of gaining knowledge . Did we but use it as we ought , This world would school each wand'ring thought To its high state , Up to that better world on high , For which we wait . Manrique . Live ...
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... conversation is of great moment : manners , humours , nay opinions , are hereby insensibly communicated . He who commands himself commands the world too ; and the more authority you have over others , the more command you must have over ...
... conversation is of great moment : manners , humours , nay opinions , are hereby insensibly communicated . He who commands himself commands the world too ; and the more authority you have over others , the more command you must have over ...
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... conversation , as pleasant ; and advan- tageous , as necessary . Do good to thy friend , that he may be more thy friend ; and unto thy enemy , that he may become thy friend . When you have made a choice of your friend , express all ...
... conversation , as pleasant ; and advan- tageous , as necessary . Do good to thy friend , that he may be more thy friend ; and unto thy enemy , that he may become thy friend . When you have made a choice of your friend , express all ...
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Side 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Side 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.