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Seite 55 - The employments of their father excite their appetites, and the repasts of their mother refresh them. To combat the passions is their delight; to conquer evil habits their glory. Their pleasures are moderate, and therefore they endure ; their repose is short, but sound and undisturbed. Their blood is pure, their minds are serene, and the physician...
Seite 67 - Harbour not revenge in thy breast ; it will torment thy heart, and warp its best inclinations. Be always more ready to forgive than to return an injury : he that watches for an opportunity of revenge, lieth in wait against himself, and draweth down mischief on his own head. A mild...
Seite 92 - He considereth the superfluities of his table as belonging to the poor, and he defraudeth them not. The benevolence of his mind is not checked by his fortune ; he rejoiceth, therefore, in riches, and his joy is blameless.
Seite 115 - He laugheth in sorrow, he weepeth in joy ; and the words of his mouth have no interpretation. He worketh in the dark as a mole, and fancieth he is safe ; but he blundereth into light, and In betrayed and exposed, with his dirt on his head.
Seite 41 - ... breaketh his rest. He sitteth in his cell repining; and the good that happeneth to another is to him an evil. Hatred and malice feed upon his heart; and there is no rest in him. He feeleth in his own breast no love of goodness; and therefore believeth his neighbor is like unto himself.
Seite 121 - He hath endued thee with reason, to maintain thy dominion : he hath fitted thee with language, to improve by society ; and exalted thy mind with the powers of meditation, to contemplate and adore his inimitable perfections. And in the laws he hath ordained as the rule of thy life, so kindly hath he suited thy duty to thy nature, that obedience to his precepts is happiness to thyself.
Seite 28 - ... there is an ear to hear, and a mind to conceive; there let the precepts of life be made known, let the maxims of truth be honoured and obeyed. All things proceed from God. His power is unbounded ; his wisdom is from eternity ; and his goodness endureth for ever.
Seite 41 - He formeth great designs, he rejoiceth in the execution thereof, and his name goeth forth to the ends of the world. But the heart of the envious man is gall and bitterness ; his tongue spitteth venom ; the success of his neighbour breaketh his rest. He sitteth in his cell repining ; and the good that happeneth to another, is to him an evil. Hatred and malice feed upon his heart, and there is no rest in him.
Seite 115 - He laugheth in sorrow ; he weepeth in joy ; and the words of his mouth have no interpretation. He worketh in 'the dark as a mole, and fancieth he is safe ; but he blundereth into light and is exposed to full view, with his dirt on his head.
Seite 109 - He forgiveth the injuries of men, he wipeth them from his remembrance; revenge and malice have no place in his heart.