Christian ethics and wise sayings, by a presbyter of the Church of EnglandJ. Nisbet & Company, 1883 - 277 pages |
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... evil . Cave ab homine unius libri - Beware of the man of one book . A few books well chosen are of more use than a great library . This books can do ; nor this alone , they give New views to life , and teach us how to live ; They soothe ...
... evil . Cave ab homine unius libri - Beware of the man of one book . A few books well chosen are of more use than a great library . This books can do ; nor this alone , they give New views to life , and teach us how to live ; They soothe ...
Page 56
... evil beyond it . " Vespasian the Roman emperor had a slave who said to him daily as he left his chamber , " Remember thou art a man . ' Death levels sceptres and spades together . He spares none . He turns all secular glory into ashes ...
... evil beyond it . " Vespasian the Roman emperor had a slave who said to him daily as he left his chamber , " Remember thou art a man . ' Death levels sceptres and spades together . He spares none . He turns all secular glory into ashes ...
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... evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it . ' Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts , Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face , When discontent sits heavy at my heart . If all men were to bring their misfortunes ...
... evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it . ' Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts , Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face , When discontent sits heavy at my heart . If all men were to bring their misfortunes ...
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... evil that we cannot face or fly from but the con- sciousness of duty disregarded . A sense of duty pursues us ever . It is omnipresent like the duty . A sense of duty will dignify the meanest tasks . While we make God's precepts our ...
... evil that we cannot face or fly from but the con- sciousness of duty disregarded . A sense of duty pursues us ever . It is omnipresent like the duty . A sense of duty will dignify the meanest tasks . While we make God's precepts our ...
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... evil spoken of by the chief rulers of the city of Athens , thanked them heartily , because by them he was made better both in his words and deeds ; " for I study , " saith he , " both by my sayings and doings to prove them liars . " Fas ...
... evil spoken of by the chief rulers of the city of Athens , thanked them heartily , because by them he was made better both in his words and deeds ; " for I study , " saith he , " both by my sayings and doings to prove them liars . " Fas ...
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Page 190 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
Page 234 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 111 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Page 142 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 49 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking.
Page 147 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 269 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 43 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 144 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 98 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.