The Ways of Life: Showing the Right Way and Wrong Way, Contrasting the High Way and the Low Way, the True Way and the False Way, the Upward Way and the Downward Way, the Way of Honor and the Way of Dishonor |
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... wise . But to know and to do from the conviction of knowledge , is to be wise . This is Principle ; and its ways are " pleasant- ness , " or pleasure . I said Principle should always be a cause , that is , a motive to action . Pleasure ...
... wise . But to know and to do from the conviction of knowledge , is to be wise . This is Principle ; and its ways are " pleasant- ness , " or pleasure . I said Principle should always be a cause , that is , a motive to action . Pleasure ...
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... wise as to seek to strike fire on a rock of ice . The reader of fiction , and the light , trashy literature with which our age abounds , exhibits another phase of a life of Pleasure . His reading brings no peace , is pro- ductive of no ...
... wise as to seek to strike fire on a rock of ice . The reader of fiction , and the light , trashy literature with which our age abounds , exhibits another phase of a life of Pleasure . His reading brings no peace , is pro- ductive of no ...
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... wise ; who reads it for any other purpose gets a doubtful benefit . So religiously , the motive is the all - important matter ; for God asks not what is done , so much as why any thing is done . The motive is what gives color to action ...
... wise ; who reads it for any other purpose gets a doubtful benefit . So religiously , the motive is the all - important matter ; for God asks not what is done , so much as why any thing is done . The motive is what gives color to action ...
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... wise . Unlettered men mouth hard words and guess at erudition , and puff themselves up to the bursting point with scholastic dignity . They try to conceal their ignorance with as many feats of show as a master of jugglery can perform ...
... wise . Unlettered men mouth hard words and guess at erudition , and puff themselves up to the bursting point with scholastic dignity . They try to conceal their ignorance with as many feats of show as a master of jugglery can perform ...
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... wise application and hard industry . Besides the moral evil and intellectual stupor which come upon the men who adopt this philosophy of Luck , their lives are embittered by constant forebodings of evil . Clouds overshadow them ; blue ...
... wise application and hard industry . Besides the moral evil and intellectual stupor which come upon the men who adopt this philosophy of Luck , their lives are embittered by constant forebodings of evil . Clouds overshadow them ; blue ...
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