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Page 13
... seek meat and drink and raiment , the lust of the eye and the pride of life - all before your gracious benefactor ! For these you would employ your six days , for these you would spend nine tenths of your substance , and ye imagine that ...
... seek meat and drink and raiment , the lust of the eye and the pride of life - all before your gracious benefactor ! For these you would employ your six days , for these you would spend nine tenths of your substance , and ye imagine that ...
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... seek . ) But seek ye first the kingdom of God , and his righteousness , and all these things shall be added unto you . Take therefore no thought for the morrow ; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself . Sufficient ...
... seek . ) But seek ye first the kingdom of God , and his righteousness , and all these things shall be added unto you . Take therefore no thought for the morrow ; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself . Sufficient ...
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... seek his kingdom - then take your portion . Drink the cup ye are raising to your lips . Bitter - bitter and poisonous are the dregs ; but to the last drop ye shall drain them . And the hot fire which their poison kindles in your veins ...
... seek his kingdom - then take your portion . Drink the cup ye are raising to your lips . Bitter - bitter and poisonous are the dregs ; but to the last drop ye shall drain them . And the hot fire which their poison kindles in your veins ...
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... seek to outstrip time and circumstance , and strain to make effects precede their preparing causes . But a self - respecting people will check the zeal of imprudence , and the intemperate haste of unreasoning or false - reckoning ...
... seek to outstrip time and circumstance , and strain to make effects precede their preparing causes . But a self - respecting people will check the zeal of imprudence , and the intemperate haste of unreasoning or false - reckoning ...
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... seek to re- new the argument with my father ; and he , on his part , never pressed the subject upon me . But I listened , and thought , and doubted , more than had been my wont ; and I spoke less . It was strange that this single ...
... seek to re- new the argument with my father ; and he , on his part , never pressed the subject upon me . But I listened , and thought , and doubted , more than had been my wont ; and I spoke less . It was strange that this single ...
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Page 5 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 6 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 2 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 2 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 1 - But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned and left desolate.
Page 20 - The mists boil up around the glaciers; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore, Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.— I am giddy.
Page 19 - ... otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace. With her the desire of the heart has failed. The great charm of existence is at an end. She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits, quicken the pulse, and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins.
Page 1 - Wishing, therefore, to remove from the minds of Your Eminences, and of every Catholic Christian, this vehement suspicion rightfully entertained towards me, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally every other error and sect contrary to the...
Page 18 - Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the »cts. He seeks for fame, for fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow men.