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... same tenour ; virtue is the only good ; nor is it poffible it fhould be otherwife than good . Wisdom is not subject to the danger of a change ; as it is not to be taken from us forcibly , nor will ever revert into folly ( * ) . I told ...
... same tenour ; virtue is the only good ; nor is it poffible it fhould be otherwife than good . Wisdom is not subject to the danger of a change ; as it is not to be taken from us forcibly , nor will ever revert into folly ( * ) . I told ...
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... same man , the strength of the injury is extinguished in the benefit . For if it is generous to forgive a man , even though he has not really deferv'd it by any past favours , somewhat more than pardon is due to him who hath injured us ...
... same man , the strength of the injury is extinguished in the benefit . For if it is generous to forgive a man , even though he has not really deferv'd it by any past favours , somewhat more than pardon is due to him who hath injured us ...
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... same time , to enjoy both the most quiet fituation and the moft noble . Whatever things feem excellent , in worldly affairs , though they are really small and of no account , but in comparison with the moft moft vile and abject , yet to ...
... same time , to enjoy both the most quiet fituation and the moft noble . Whatever things feem excellent , in worldly affairs , though they are really small and of no account , but in comparison with the moft moft vile and abject , yet to ...
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... same power over king- doms themfelves , as over the rulers thereof . We are to repine at none of these things ; we have entered upon a world , where we live fubject to these conditions . Are you not pleased with it ? Regret not the ...
... same power over king- doms themfelves , as over the rulers thereof . We are to repine at none of these things ; we have entered upon a world , where we live fubject to these conditions . Are you not pleased with it ? Regret not the ...
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... same neceffity binds both high and low , you have nothing to do but to reconcile yourself to Fate , by whom all things are determined ( to their proper end . ) There is no need to measure man by his tomb , or by thofe monuments that are ...
... same neceffity binds both high and low , you have nothing to do but to reconcile yourself to Fate , by whom all things are determined ( to their proper end . ) There is no need to measure man by his tomb , or by thofe monuments that are ...
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Page 161 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 182 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 145 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 181 - And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it : and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 145 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 85 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 196 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 140 - ... and dangers of the air and the earth, there are perils by water and perils by fire. This...
Page 140 - ... and virtuous men ; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourfelves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.
Page 148 - I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.