Chapters from the Bible of the AgesGiles Badger Stebbins |
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... better future . I have aimed to use only the best and most authentic and acknowledged authorities , especially in quoting from the older and more obscure writings . I am fortunately able to obtain some valuable translations of Talmudic ...
... better future . I have aimed to use only the best and most authentic and acknowledged authorities , especially in quoting from the older and more obscure writings . I am fortunately able to obtain some valuable translations of Talmudic ...
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... better or his equal , let him firmly keep his solitary journey ; for there is no companionship with a fool . If a fool be associated with a wise man all his life , he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of ...
... better or his equal , let him firmly keep his solitary journey ; for there is no companionship with a fool . If a fool be associated with a wise man all his life , he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of ...
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... better than all other people ; not even a god , a Gandharva , not Mara with Brahman , could change into defeat the ... better is that homage than sacrifice for a hundred years . He who lives a hundred years ignorant and unrestrained , a ...
... better than all other people ; not even a god , a Gandharva , not Mara with Brahman , could change into defeat the ... better is that homage than sacrifice for a hundred years . He who lives a hundred years ignorant and unrestrained , a ...
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... Better than sovereignty , better than going to heaven , better than lordship over all worlds , is the reward of the first step in holiness . Kinsfolk , friends and lovers salute a man who has been long away and returns safe from afar ...
... Better than sovereignty , better than going to heaven , better than lordship over all worlds , is the reward of the first step in holiness . Kinsfolk , friends and lovers salute a man who has been long away and returns safe from afar ...
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... better than all praise . Accept these reasonable sacrifices from a pure Soul , and a heart stretched out unto Thee . I beseech Thee , that I may never err from the knowledge of Thee ; look mercifully upon me , and enable me , and ...
... better than all praise . Accept these reasonable sacrifices from a pure Soul , and a heart stretched out unto Thee . I beseech Thee , that I may never err from the knowledge of Thee ; look mercifully upon me , and enable me , and ...
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Page 161 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 78 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 79 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Page 125 - ... But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
Page 79 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day; and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 159 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 161 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 162 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 125 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you that ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 124 - AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain : and •when he was set, his disciples came unto him. 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.