A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules of Life from the Wise of All AgesJosephus Nelson Larned Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901 - 499 pagini |
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... suffering poverty had been common in the land . Thus even the omissions of the treatise cannot lessen the astonishment with which we find such conceptions of conduct and character matured at so early a day . From Ptah - hotep we pass a ...
... suffering poverty had been common in the land . Thus even the omissions of the treatise cannot lessen the astonishment with which we find such conceptions of conduct and character matured at so early a day . From Ptah - hotep we pass a ...
Pagina 32
... suffers . That which is good becomes evil ; taste completely disappears . Old age makes a man altogether miserable ; the nose is stopped up , breath- ing no more from exhaustion . Standing or sitting there PRECEPTS OF PTAH-HOTEP, THE ...
... suffers . That which is good becomes evil ; taste completely disappears . Old age makes a man altogether miserable ; the nose is stopped up , breath- ing no more from exhaustion . Standing or sitting there PRECEPTS OF PTAH-HOTEP, THE ...
Pagina 58
... vowest . Better is it that thou shouldest not vow , than that thou shouldest vow and not pay . Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin ; neither say thou before the angel , that it was an error : wherefore should God be angry at thy.
... vowest . Better is it that thou shouldest not vow , than that thou shouldest vow and not pay . Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin ; neither say thou before the angel , that it was an error : wherefore should God be angry at thy.
Pagina 59
... suffer him to sleep . : There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun , namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt : and those riches perish by evil adventure ; and if he hath begotten a son , there is nothing in ...
... suffer him to sleep . : There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun , namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt : and those riches perish by evil adventure ; and if he hath begotten a son , there is nothing in ...
Pagina 69
... suffer for thy righteous acts , Ne'er give thy mind to aught but honest gain . ( iv . 171. ) So act in thy brief passage through this world That thy apparel , speech , and inner store Of knowledge be adapted to thy age , Thy occupation ...
... suffer for thy righteous acts , Ne'er give thy mind to aught but honest gain . ( iv . 171. ) So act in thy brief passage through this world That thy apparel , speech , and inner store Of knowledge be adapted to thy age , Thy occupation ...
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advice anger Aristotle avoid Bailey Saunders better blessing body boke Book of Proverbs born Buddhism called Confucius courage curtesie death deeds delight desire despise Divinity doth duty English Epictetus esteemed evil eyes father faults fear fool give Goethe grace greatest hand happy hath heaven Hesiod holy honest honour keep king knowledge labour lest let thy live look Lord loue MADAME SWETCHINE MAIMONIDES man's manners Marcus Aurelius means mercy mind moral mouth nature ness never passion person philosopher pleasure poor praise precepts Ptah-hotep remember Resolved rich rules shame speak spirit Stageira suffer T. W. Rhys Davids teach temper Ten Precepts thee thine things Thomas à Kempis thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thought thy heart thy soul thyself tion tongue translation truth unto virtue wisdom wise words Wyclif
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Pagina 382 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Pagina 132 - Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Pagina 462 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Pagina 61 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Pagina 41 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Pagina 51 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise : Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pagina 131 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council ; but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Pagina 464 - Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
Pagina 136 - Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Pagina 45 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty : but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 16 Thou shalt. not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.