Why and what Am I?: The Confessions of an Inquirer

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Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857 - 320 oldal
 

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219. oldal - I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours.
237. oldal - GOD, Thou that art the GOD of my health : and my tongue shall sing of Thy righteousness.
299. oldal - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
319. oldal - bless those that curse you, do good to those that hate you — that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven ;' and ' Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing thence ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the sons of the Most High.
86. oldal - My Refuge, my almighty Friend — And can my soul from thee depart, On whom alone my hopes depend ! 2 Whither, ah ! whither shall I go, A wretched wanderer from my Lord ? Can this dark world...
319. oldal - ... universe is but the workshop of each individual soul God manifests a definite design in every particular of creation. There is, to my mind, no law more certain than that hope and aspiration are the forerunners of realization, — the seeds planted in time, to blossom and bear fruit throughout eternity Let each man and woman guard well his or her actions and motives, self-examining and self-denying, acting love to their neighbor and leaning on God ; and so shall all make a more rapid progress...
132. oldal - My chief hobby was to walk about my native city, with my head brimfull of improvements and architectural designs for its ornamentation. I founded societies, built spacious and elegant public edifices, and in a thousand ways made myself a public benefactor, without thought of wealth or distinction to myself.
299. oldal - ... noblest souls, and the moral drawn from his earth experience was full of consolation to those who, like him, had suffered. " I intend to go my own way and win my own destiny. I have already learned enough to know that I am immortal, and that the universe is but the workshop of each individual soul God manifests a definite design in every particular of creation. There is, to my mind, no law more certain than that hope and aspiration are the forerunners of realization, — the seeds planted in...
115. oldal - Every boy has his pet ambition. Mine was to become a historian. Mexico and Peru were my favorite fields of research. Before Prescott's Histories were published I had read most of his printed authorities, and was studying diligently to qualify myself for the labor which he anticipated. How eagerly I devoured his fascinating works when they appeared, but it was with a pang of disappointment to see my own ambition thus frustrated.

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