On Peace and HappinessMacmillan, 1909 - 386 páginas |
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... 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 ...
... 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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... true pleasures last long . True plea- sures are paid for in advance ; false pleasures afterwards , with heavy and compound interest . As Thomas à Kempis says in The Imitation of Christ- " So every fleshly joy comes with a smiling face ...
... true pleasures last long . True plea- sures are paid for in advance ; false pleasures afterwards , with heavy and compound interest . As Thomas à Kempis says in The Imitation of Christ- " So every fleshly joy comes with a smiling face ...
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... true of mental troubles - that care is a safe- guard from disaster , and sorrow from despair . It is foolish to make ourselves miserable about troubles which may never happen . According to the old saying , it is no use jumping till you ...
... true of mental troubles - that care is a safe- guard from disaster , and sorrow from despair . It is foolish to make ourselves miserable about troubles which may never happen . According to the old saying , it is no use jumping till you ...
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... true , " said Baxley , " in order to do what is right , is the sum- mes , October 4 , 1904 , The Soul of a Nation . al intime . *** Génie du Christianisme , le of He said Ow th TOT to : al of Jar th the overies and on of at wo ご whic ...
... true , " said Baxley , " in order to do what is right , is the sum- mes , October 4 , 1904 , The Soul of a Nation . al intime . *** Génie du Christianisme , le of He said Ow th TOT to : al of Jar th the overies and on of at wo ご whic ...
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... true monk he was , and we knew it not , ' and burst into alternate fits of weeping and laughter , between the sorrow of having lost such a head , and the joy of having found such a saint . " Yet however good our health may be , however ...
... true monk he was , and we knew it not , ' and burst into alternate fits of weeping and laughter , between the sorrow of having lost such a head , and the joy of having found such a saint . " Yet however good our health may be , however ...
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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...