Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... efforts on our own part will avail to shake off the burden . Anger will not make others gentle ; discontent will not alter circumstances ; an unforgiving tem- per will not avert offences . There is but one way to lighten the burden of ...
... efforts on our own part will avail to shake off the burden . Anger will not make others gentle ; discontent will not alter circumstances ; an unforgiving tem- per will not avert offences . There is but one way to lighten the burden of ...
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... efforts of human will , no powers of human intellect , may ever avail to enable us to view aright the real nature of sin - its cost , its penalty . Be it always remembered that a part of this penalty is temporal unhappiness . Discipline ...
... efforts of human will , no powers of human intellect , may ever avail to enable us to view aright the real nature of sin - its cost , its penalty . Be it always remembered that a part of this penalty is temporal unhappiness . Discipline ...
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... efforts to cherish that light into a perfect day , it may again be withdrawn , and you may be allowed to slumber on in darkness as before . * Psalm cxxxviii . 8 . † Phil . ii . 12 . That such fatal end may not be yours , give D 2 SELF ...
... efforts to cherish that light into a perfect day , it may again be withdrawn , and you may be allowed to slumber on in darkness as before . * Psalm cxxxviii . 8 . † Phil . ii . 12 . That such fatal end may not be yours , give D 2 SELF ...
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... , or did you allow it to excite anger , or , at least , uncomfortable feelings ? and when the plans of others were to be carried into execution , did you exert your best , your cheerful efforts for their success ? or , what was 46 PRIDE .
... , or did you allow it to excite anger , or , at least , uncomfortable feelings ? and when the plans of others were to be carried into execution , did you exert your best , your cheerful efforts for their success ? or , what was 46 PRIDE .
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Sydney Warburton. cheerful efforts for their success ? or , what was a greater effort still , when the pre- ferred plans turned out in their result to be better than your own , have you candidly and graciously acknowledged that this was ...
Sydney Warburton. cheerful efforts for their success ? or , what was a greater effort still , when the pre- ferred plans turned out in their result to be better than your own , have you candidly and graciously acknowledged that this was ...
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Page 129 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 57 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.