On Peace and HappinessMacmillan, 1909 - 386 páginas |
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... sense of pro- portion would reduce many troubles to infinitesimal dimensions . We are apt to let our mind dwell on any source of sorrow or anxiety , and to overlook the many blessings by which we are surrounded , or to take them as a ...
... sense of pro- portion would reduce many troubles to infinitesimal dimensions . We are apt to let our mind dwell on any source of sorrow or anxiety , and to overlook the many blessings by which we are surrounded , or to take them as a ...
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... sense of being against the ordinary course of nature , but the ordinary course of nature is itself marvellous . The way in which man is fed by the multiplication of grain , the increase of flocks and herds ; the way in which corn and ...
... sense of being against the ordinary course of nature , but the ordinary course of nature is itself marvellous . The way in which man is fed by the multiplication of grain , the increase of flocks and herds ; the way in which corn and ...
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... senses . As regards touch , there are in the skin , especially of the hands and tongue , certain minute corpuscles each connected with a nerve , some organs of touch , others and different ones for the transmission of the sensations of ...
... senses . As regards touch , there are in the skin , especially of the hands and tongue , certain minute corpuscles each connected with a nerve , some organs of touch , others and different ones for the transmission of the sensations of ...
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... sense how much we know ! The existence of memory is so familiar that we do not realise what a marvel it is . In ne sense even the most ignorant of us have an almost inexhaustible stock of knowledge . What innumerable facts are stored 40 ...
... sense how much we know ! The existence of memory is so familiar that we do not realise what a marvel it is . In ne sense even the most ignorant of us have an almost inexhaustible stock of knowledge . What innumerable facts are stored 40 ...
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... senses in forgetfulness ! * Sleep has been well described as Nature's soft nurse , the mantle that covers thought , the food that appeases hunger , the drink that quenches thirst , the fire that warms cold , the cold that moderates heat ...
... senses in forgetfulness ! * Sleep has been well described as Nature's soft nurse , the mantle that covers thought , the food that appeases hunger , the drink that quenches thirst , the fire that warms cold , the cold that moderates heat ...
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animals anxiety Bacon balance of happiness beauty better blessings body Bushido Christian Cicero danger death delightful difficult doubt earth enemy Europe evil eyes fault fear feel Fénelon flowers friends give glorious Goethe gold hath heart heaven honour hope human interest Jeremy Taylor Joubert kind knowledge labour Lake Winder leaves live look Lord Lord Derby Madame de Sévigné Madame de Staël marvellous Max Müller ment mind misfortunes mistake Moreover mountains mystery Nature never noble old age oneself ourselves pain Peace and Happiness perhaps pleasure poor prosperity proverb realise religion rest rich ruin says schools Shakespeare sleep sometimes sorrow soul spirit suffering surely Tauchnitz teach tells thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion to-morrow told tout troubles true unto virtue W. R. Greg wealth wisdom wise wish wonderful words Youth
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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...