Life doubled by the economy of time. By the author of “How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds” [Robert Kemp-Philp]. |
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... Eternity . Let all wasters of time count upon it . It is as certain as anything in this world , that there is another world . You may venture your lives , your souls and all , upon the truth of it . Why should the blessed Apostle press ...
... Eternity . Let all wasters of time count upon it . It is as certain as anything in this world , that there is another world . You may venture your lives , your souls and all , upon the truth of it . Why should the blessed Apostle press ...
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... eternity of happiness or misery doth depend ; nor is it pos- sible for us to recover yesterday , so as to make that to be present again which is actually elapsed . The nature of the thing will not allow it : and yet it is possible to do ...
... eternity of happiness or misery doth depend ; nor is it pos- sible for us to recover yesterday , so as to make that to be present again which is actually elapsed . The nature of the thing will not allow it : and yet it is possible to do ...
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... eternity . It is the only business we have in this world , to be evermore regular and constant in the course God has set us , as the sun is in his motions . From the womb to the grave we have our days numbered out to us ; for however we ...
... eternity . It is the only business we have in this world , to be evermore regular and constant in the course God has set us , as the sun is in his motions . From the womb to the grave we have our days numbered out to us ; for however we ...
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... Eternity , " and in which he espe- cially treated of the changeable state and short duration of earthly things , especially of man ; how little it is considered " It is not so proper to ask , when BY THE ECONOMY OF TIME . 37.
... Eternity , " and in which he espe- cially treated of the changeable state and short duration of earthly things , especially of man ; how little it is considered " It is not so proper to ask , when BY THE ECONOMY OF TIME . 37.
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... Eternity , into that Time never entered ; Eternity is not an everlasting flux of Time , but Time is a short parenthesis in a long period ; and Eternity had been the same as it is , though Time had never been . 2 " He lives long that ...
... Eternity , into that Time never entered ; Eternity is not an everlasting flux of Time , but Time is a short parenthesis in a long period ; and Eternity had been the same as it is , though Time had never been . 2 " He lives long that ...
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Página 66 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Página 87 - INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Página 19 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 66 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed : Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Página 86 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Página 86 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Página 87 - Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Página 91 - ... satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Página 97 - I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point.
Página 78 - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.