The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources and ArrangedS. Sonnenschein, 1895 - 323 pages |
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... pass on and are punished . THE BLIND- ING POWER OF PRIDE 25. Proud men are fearless of temptations , and con- fident of their strength and the goodness of their hearts : they dare live among snares , in pomp and pleasure , faring ...
... pass on and are punished . THE BLIND- ING POWER OF PRIDE 25. Proud men are fearless of temptations , and con- fident of their strength and the goodness of their hearts : they dare live among snares , in pomp and pleasure , faring ...
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... pass over greater matters in ourselves . WE BELITTLE THE GOOD IN OUR NEIGHBOUR 5. We quickly enough feel and weigh what we suffer at the hands of others , but we mind not what others suffer from us . 6. We hand folk over to God's mercy ...
... pass over greater matters in ourselves . WE BELITTLE THE GOOD IN OUR NEIGHBOUR 5. We quickly enough feel and weigh what we suffer at the hands of others , but we mind not what others suffer from us . 6. We hand folk over to God's mercy ...
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... pass athwart us in thin vapour , and cannot make themselves felt . 13. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they are clothed in a living human soul , with all its conflicts , its faith , and its love . 14. Then their presence is a power ...
... pass athwart us in thin vapour , and cannot make themselves felt . 13. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they are clothed in a living human soul , with all its conflicts , its faith , and its love . 14. Then their presence is a power ...
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... passes current in the market of vanity fair . 23. We are weary of the low standards by which actions are judged , and to which , to our dismay , we per- ceive our actions insensibly conform . 24. But the pressure of social influence ...
... passes current in the market of vanity fair . 23. We are weary of the low standards by which actions are judged , and to which , to our dismay , we per- ceive our actions insensibly conform . 24. But the pressure of social influence ...
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... passes into thee , transformed into strength ; every passion , not merely kept in abeyance by asceticism , but subdued by a higher impulse , is so much character . 7. From performing just actions a man becomes just ; and from performing ...
... passes into thee , transformed into strength ; every passion , not merely kept in abeyance by asceticism , but subdued by a higher impulse , is so much character . 7. From performing just actions a man becomes just ; and from performing ...
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Page 228 - ... spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Page 235 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 174 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this. Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 131 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 149 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 287 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 281 - May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 97 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 15 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 26 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.