A Treatise on Self KnowledgeT. Tegg, 1821 - 242 páginas |
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... thou art , whatever be thy character , station , or distinction in life , if thou art afraid to look into thine heart , and hast no inclination to self - acquaintance , read no further , lay aside this book ; for thou wilt find nothing ...
... thou art , whatever be thy character , station , or distinction in life , if thou art afraid to look into thine heart , and hast no inclination to self - acquaintance , read no further , lay aside this book ; for thou wilt find nothing ...
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... thou wast not ; gave thee those reasoning and reflecting faculties , which thou art now employ- ing in searching out the end and happiness of thy nature . It was He , O my soul , that made thee intelligent and immortal . It was He that ...
... thou wast not ; gave thee those reasoning and reflecting faculties , which thou art now employ- ing in searching out the end and happiness of thy nature . It was He , O my soul , that made thee intelligent and immortal . It was He that ...
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... thou art here ? What part hath he allotted me to act on the stage of human life , when he , angels , and men , are spectators of my behaviour ? The part he hath given me to act here is , doubtless , a very important one , be- cause it ...
... thou art here ? What part hath he allotted me to act on the stage of human life , when he , angels , and men , are spectators of my behaviour ? The part he hath given me to act here is , doubtless , a very important one , be- cause it ...
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John Mason. dishonour thy high original , or degrade thy no- ble nature . But let me still urge it . Consider ( I say ) , O my soul ! that thou art an immortal spirit . Thy body dies ; but thou , thou must live for ever , and thine ...
John Mason. dishonour thy high original , or degrade thy no- ble nature . But let me still urge it . Consider ( I say ) , O my soul ! that thou art an immortal spirit . Thy body dies ; but thou , thou must live for ever , and thine ...
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... thou art our father : we are the clay , and thou our potter ; and we are all the work of thine hands . " And , in a more special sense , we are his children by adoption . Gal . iii . 26. " For ye are all the children of God , by faith ...
... thou art our father : we are the clay , and thou our potter ; and we are all the work of thine hands . " And , in a more special sense , we are his children by adoption . Gal . iii . 26. " For ye are all the children of God , by faith ...
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Página 83 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Página 87 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Página 30 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Página 6 - For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Página 23 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the clay, and thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand.
Página 172 - DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Página 144 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Página 100 - Anger may steal into the heart " of a wise man, but it rests only in the bosom "of fools.
Página 112 - I shall conclude with this one observation more; that it is a very dangerous thing to think, as too many are apt to do, that it is a matter of indifference what thoughts they entertain in their hearts, since the reason of things concurs with the testimony of the holy Scripture to assure us, ' That the allowed thought of foolishness is sin.
Página xii - The highest learning is to be wise, and the greatest wisdom is to be good;" as Marcus Antoninus somewhere observes.