On Peace and HappinessMacmillan, 1909 - 386 páginas |
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Sir John Lubbock. self . Our language expresses this admirably . do we say if we have had a happy day ? have enjoyed ourselves . What We say we This expression of our mother - tongue seems very suggestive . Our happiness depends upon ...
Sir John Lubbock. self . Our language expresses this admirably . do we say if we have had a happy day ? have enjoyed ourselves . What We say we This expression of our mother - tongue seems very suggestive . Our happiness depends upon ...
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... say , true sovereign power — almost , I might say , the power best worth having - namely , the power over oneself . Everyone is ruled by somebody , and it is better to be governed by oneself than by anybody else . Caprice for caprice ...
... say , true sovereign power — almost , I might say , the power best worth having - namely , the power over oneself . Everyone is ruled by somebody , and it is better to be governed by oneself than by anybody else . Caprice for caprice ...
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... says Joubert , " dépend de nous ; tout le reste dépend de Dieu . " * It is not the wicked world without , but the sinful soul within , that ruins a man . We pray that we may not be led into tempta- tion , but in ninety - nine cases out ...
... says Joubert , " dépend de nous ; tout le reste dépend de Dieu . " * It is not the wicked world without , but the sinful soul within , that ruins a man . We pray that we may not be led into tempta- tion , but in ninety - nine cases out ...
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... says in The Imitation of Christ- " So every fleshly joy comes with a smiling face , but at the last it bites and kills . " False pleasures come from without and are imperfect : happiness is internal and our own . Sir George Cornewall ...
... says in The Imitation of Christ- " So every fleshly joy comes with a smiling face , but at the last it bites and kills . " False pleasures come from without and are imperfect : happiness is internal and our own . Sir George Cornewall ...
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... says Alfred Austin , our Poet Laureate , " are the sweetest of all our joys . " But who can describe happiness ? " Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : I were but little happy , if I could say how much . " * The view of Epicurus ...
... says Alfred Austin , our Poet Laureate , " are the sweetest of all our joys . " But who can describe happiness ? " Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : I were but little happy , if I could say how much . " * The view of Epicurus ...
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Página 250 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Página 254 - But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Página 288 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing ; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Página 282 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Página 191 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 84 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 52 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 89 - Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun : because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Página 238 - Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee...
Página 58 - But that the dread of something after death — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...