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... did lie upon the spending of this day or week , or if thy life lay on it , so that thou must live or die , be poor or rich , sick or well , as thou spendest it , THE SOUL 6. Wouldst thou then waste it in dressings or com- 52.
... did lie upon the spending of this day or week , or if thy life lay on it , so that thou must live or die , be poor or rich , sick or well , as thou spendest it , THE SOUL 6. Wouldst thou then waste it in dressings or com- 52.
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... rich man that is afflicted in his body . THE BLESSINGS OF HEALTH 2. Health and good estate of body are above all gold , and a strong body above infinite wealth . 3. All healthy things are sweet - tempered . 4. The first wealth is health ...
... rich man that is afflicted in his body . THE BLESSINGS OF HEALTH 2. Health and good estate of body are above all gold , and a strong body above infinite wealth . 3. All healthy things are sweet - tempered . 4. The first wealth is health ...
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... rich man hath done wrong , and yet he threateneth withal : the poor man is wronged , THE POOR SUFFER NOT ONLY POVERTY and he must entreat also . 38. When a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers : he speaketh things not to be spoken ...
... rich man hath done wrong , and yet he threateneth withal : the poor man is wronged , THE POOR SUFFER NOT ONLY POVERTY and he must entreat also . 38. When a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers : he speaketh things not to be spoken ...
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... rich satisfy themselves with giving alms to the needy . They think little of more fatal gifts which they perpetually bestow . THE LOVE OF WEALTH 2. They think little that their idolatry of outward prosperity , and their contempt of ...
... rich satisfy themselves with giving alms to the needy . They think little of more fatal gifts which they perpetually bestow . THE LOVE OF WEALTH 2. They think little that their idolatry of outward prosperity , and their contempt of ...
Page 115
... rich , rather than be happy with the expense of money and doing noble things . 16. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches , and not by right , shall leave them in the midst of his days , and ...
... rich , rather than be happy with the expense of money and doing noble things . 16. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches , and not by right , shall leave them in the midst of his days , and ...
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Page 228 - ... spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Page 235 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 174 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this. Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 131 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 149 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 287 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 281 - May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 97 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 15 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 26 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.