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Page 35
... happiness of those around us , now passed away from our reach for ever ? We must pass more rapidly over some of the minor points of peculiarity in Christ's doctrine , and the strange fatality by which they have been neg- lected , while ...
... happiness of those around us , now passed away from our reach for ever ? We must pass more rapidly over some of the minor points of peculiarity in Christ's doctrine , and the strange fatality by which they have been neg- lected , while ...
Page 57
... happiness and virtue , and not because he will serve us in return ; to pursue the good , the beautiful , the true , because the good is good , and beauty is beautiful , and truth is true , and not because philan- thropy will redound to ...
... happiness and virtue , and not because he will serve us in return ; to pursue the good , the beautiful , the true , because the good is good , and beauty is beautiful , and truth is true , and not because philan- thropy will redound to ...
Page 58
... happiness , which makes a man seek his own welfare before all things , and build up his own " pyramid " for the dwelling- place , nay , rather , for the sepulchre of his own love- less soul . And Self - abnegation may likewise be noble ...
... happiness , which makes a man seek his own welfare before all things , and build up his own " pyramid " for the dwelling- place , nay , rather , for the sepulchre of his own love- less soul . And Self - abnegation may likewise be noble ...
Page 71
... happiness . Of course women are selfish as well as men , in some ways they are more selfish and exigeantes ; and many is the kind , self- sacrificing father , husband , brother , who has a right to complain bitterly that his labours ...
... happiness . Of course women are selfish as well as men , in some ways they are more selfish and exigeantes ; and many is the kind , self- sacrificing father , husband , brother , who has a right to complain bitterly that his labours ...
Page 72
... happiness and the good of others , she is cramped into the same bounds which fitted her as a school - girl , with no greater freedom to travel , to see friends , to obtain books , to help the poor ; and the result is either torpid ...
... happiness and the good of others , she is cramped into the same bounds which fitted her as a school - girl , with no greater freedom to travel , to see friends , to obtain books , to help the poor ; and the result is either torpid ...
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Page 385 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 435 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 310 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 435 - For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Page 12 - All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets : Matt, vii, 12.
Page 423 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 96 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee Aud sophists, madly vain of dubious lore...
Page 11 - 1. Do not kill. 2. Do not steal. 3. Do not commit adultery. 4. Do not lie. 5. Do not slander.
Page 44 - ... he were every day guilty of some himself; and, at the same time, as cautious of committing a fault, as if he never forgave one.
Page 18 - To the like purpose is Mic. vi. 8. He hath shewed thee, 0 man, what is good ; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justice, and love MERCY, and walk humbly with thy God ? And also Hos.