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... knowledge that if they do them they will be punished : they may be cured of steal- ing , for example , by being whipped when they do steal . But they could not be taught to re- frain from it because it was an infringement of another's ...
... knowledge that if they do them they will be punished : they may be cured of steal- ing , for example , by being whipped when they do steal . But they could not be taught to re- frain from it because it was an infringement of another's ...
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... knowledge ? It cost you suffering to learn it , it costs you suffering to practise it . But do you grudge the suffering ? I know you do not . Spinoza has an odd defini- tion of suffering as " the passage to a lower state 1 See a sermon ...
... knowledge ? It cost you suffering to learn it , it costs you suffering to practise it . But do you grudge the suffering ? I know you do not . Spinoza has an odd defini- tion of suffering as " the passage to a lower state 1 See a sermon ...
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... could be achieved by an unthinking brute . But it is still more strange that thousands should live and die in almost equal ignorance of them- selves . The knowledge of human nature should be the first business of education , but it is.
... could be achieved by an unthinking brute . But it is still more strange that thousands should live and die in almost equal ignorance of them- selves . The knowledge of human nature should be the first business of education , but it is.
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... knowledge of the material upon which , and the instruments with which , he works , so the value of your life - work and mine will de- pend mainly upon the amount of attentive con- sideration which we have given to the laws of our own ...
... knowledge of the material upon which , and the instruments with which , he works , so the value of your life - work and mine will de- pend mainly upon the amount of attentive con- sideration which we have given to the laws of our own ...
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... knowledge , and though I have all faith , so that I could re- move mountains , and have not charity , I am nothing . And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and though I give my body to be burned , and have not charity , it ...
... knowledge , and though I have all faith , so that I could re- move mountains , and have not charity , I am nothing . And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and though I give my body to be burned , and have not charity , it ...
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Page 131 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 150 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 291 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 200 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 168 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing.
Page 159 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 58 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
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Page 315 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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