Flowers of Christian WisdomR. Washbourne, 1873 - 198 strán (strany) |
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Ambrose Angebault Augustine Basil Baudry beautiful become Berteaud Besson Blanchard blush Bonald Bossuet Bouillerie Bruyère charity Charles Sainte-Foi charm Châteaubriand Christian Church Clement of Alexandria Communion conscience courage desire devotedness divine Dupanloup duty earth esteem eternal everything evil faith father faults fear Fénélon flowers Francis of Sales François de Neufchâteau Freppel friendship give glory grace Gregory of Nazianzen Gregory of Nyssa happiness heart heaven holy honour human intellect J.J. Rousseau Jesus Christ John Chrysostom Joseph de Maistre Joubert l'Abbé La Rochefoucauld labour Lacordaire Landriot Liguori live Maistre manners mind necessary never noble one's oneself ourselves Ozanam Pascal passions peace Perreyve Peschoud piety pleasure prayer purity Ravignan religion renders respect Rochefoucauld sacrifice shame Silvio Pellico soul speak sweet temple theatre thee things thou thyself tion true truth vice virtue virtuous wicked words young youth
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Strana 162 - AND is there care in heaven ? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is : else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts. But O ! th...
Strana 42 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Strana 171 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Strana 93 - I suppose you mean the greatest love, and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings, and the most exemplar faithfulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds, of which brave men and women are capable.
Strana 75 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Strana v - Are there no foes for me to face ? Must I not stem the flood ? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God...
Strana 3 - Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Strana 3 - A breath of air, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But were the universe to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies ; and the universe knows nothing of the advantage it has over him.
Strana 162 - O! th' exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe!
Strana 4 - For love, in my opinion, is as much the life of the soul, as the soul is the life of the body.