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... knowledge we obtain immortality . If a man know it here , that is the true end of life ; if he does not know this here , then there is great destruction ( new births ) . The wise , who have thought on all things and recognized the Self ...
... knowledge we obtain immortality . If a man know it here , that is the true end of life ; if he does not know this here , then there is great destruction ( new births ) . The wise , who have thought on all things and recognized the Self ...
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... knowledge of the law , and gives to all the benefit of wisdom ! Giving complete rest to the world , the virtuous streams flow forth ! . . . Having himself severed the barriers of sorrow , now he is able to save his followers , and to ...
... knowledge of the law , and gives to all the benefit of wisdom ! Giving complete rest to the world , the virtuous streams flow forth ! . . . Having himself severed the barriers of sorrow , now he is able to save his followers , and to ...
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... knowledge seem to them to be . Francis Bacon . I regret not death ; I am going to meet my friends in another world . Ludovico Ariosto . DEATH and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven . Michelangelo Buonarotti . HE ...
... knowledge seem to them to be . Francis Bacon . I regret not death ; I am going to meet my friends in another world . Ludovico Ariosto . DEATH and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven . Michelangelo Buonarotti . HE ...
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... knowledge of God will enable us to subdue the hurtful passions . This as the source of all knowledge is the most perfect of all ; and inasmuch as all knowledge is derived from the knowledge of God , we may know God better than 51 ...
... knowledge of God will enable us to subdue the hurtful passions . This as the source of all knowledge is the most perfect of all ; and inasmuch as all knowledge is derived from the knowledge of God , we may know God better than 51 ...
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Significant Thoughts on the Future Life Helen Philbrook Patten. knowledge of God , we may know God better than we know ourselves . This knowledge in time , leads to the love of God which is the soul's union with him . The union of the ...
Significant Thoughts on the Future Life Helen Philbrook Patten. knowledge of God , we may know God better than we know ourselves . This knowledge in time , leads to the love of God which is the soul's union with him . The union of the ...
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beauty behold belief in immortality believe Benjamin Apthorp Gould birth body breath Camille Flammarion Christ consciousness Creator Daniel Coit Gilman dark dead death delight divine doth doubt dream dust dwell earth earthly Edward Rowland Sill eternal everlasting existence eyes faculties faith Father fear feel flesh forever future give glory God's grave happiness harbor at last hath heart heaven heavenly Helen Hunt Jackson holy hope human soul imagination infinite invisible James Dwight Dana Jesus John John William Dawson knowledge life's light live Lord man's matter Maurice Maeterlinck mind mortal mystery nature nearer never night pain perfect perish prana rejoice resurrection rise scientific sense shadow Simon Newcomb sleep soul spirit stars sure sweet tality thee things Thomas Bailey Aldrich thou art thou shalt thought tion to-day true truth universe unto virtue voice Walt Whitman William word
Popular passages
Page 204 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea...
Page 202 - The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 179 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 21 - We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Page 192 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 212 - No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere : I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. O God within my breast, Almighty, ever-present Deity ! Life — that in me has rest, As I — undying Life — have power in thee...
Page 172 - Fool'd by these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed, without be rich no more : So shalt thou feed...
Page 199 - I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long, But God hath led my dear ones on, And He can do no wrong. I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies.
Page 22 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 179 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.