Discourses on Human LifeDavid Felt, 1841 - 299 pages |
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... Virtue . IV . LIFE IS , WHAT WE MAKE IT . • V. ON INEQUALITY IN THE LOT OF LIFE . VI . ON THE MISERIES OF Life . VII . ON THE SCHOOL OF Life . VIII . ON THE VALUE OF LIFE . · IX . LIFE'S CONSOLATION IN VIEW OF DEATH . . X. THE PROBLEM ...
... Virtue . IV . LIFE IS , WHAT WE MAKE IT . • V. ON INEQUALITY IN THE LOT OF LIFE . VI . ON THE MISERIES OF Life . VII . ON THE SCHOOL OF Life . VIII . ON THE VALUE OF LIFE . · IX . LIFE'S CONSOLATION IN VIEW OF DEATH . . X. THE PROBLEM ...
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... virtues , a school of improve- ment . From the poor boy that gathers a few sticks for his mother's hearth , to the strong man who fells the forest oak , every human toiler , with every weary step and every urgent task , is obeying a ...
... virtues , a school of improve- ment . From the poor boy that gathers a few sticks for his mother's hearth , to the strong man who fells the forest oak , every human toiler , with every weary step and every urgent task , is obeying a ...
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... with the fruitful themes of virtue ; or because we have lost almost all vir- tue in unreasonable and outrageous impatience . Yes , the idle watch - hand often points to something within us THAT EVERY THING IN LIFE IS MORAL . 23.
... with the fruitful themes of virtue ; or because we have lost almost all vir- tue in unreasonable and outrageous impatience . Yes , the idle watch - hand often points to something within us THAT EVERY THING IN LIFE IS MORAL . 23.
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... and exigen- cies . It is impossible that imperfect minds should com- mune together without a constant trial of their tempers and virtues . Though of the most friendly and kindred 3 THAT EVERY THING IN LIFE IS MORAL . 29.
... and exigen- cies . It is impossible that imperfect minds should com- mune together without a constant trial of their tempers and virtues . Though of the most friendly and kindred 3 THAT EVERY THING IN LIFE IS MORAL . 29.
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... virtues . You enter into the throng of society . Every turn of your eye , may present an oc- casion for the exercise of your self - respect , your calmness , your modesty , your candor , your forgetfulness of self , your love of others ...
... virtues . You enter into the throng of society . Every turn of your eye , may present an oc- casion for the exercise of your self - respect , your calmness , your modesty , your candor , your forgetfulness of self , your love of others ...
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Page 286 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 284 - Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Page 151 - The interpretation of his case is as plain as words can make it; and it is this : " light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.
Page 133 - Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Page 153 - But he turned, and said unto Peter, 'Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an offence unto me, for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Page 43 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Page 5 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep f alleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 259 - For what doth the Lord require of thee," saith the prophet, indignant at the complaint of ignorance, " what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Page 296 - Life, which in this solitude, with the mind's organ, I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one ; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers.
Page 147 - And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.