Criticisms of Life: Studies in Faith, Hope and DespairHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 295 من الصفحات |
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abiogenesis affirm agnosticism argument assertion Athanasian Creed atheism attitude believe called Catholic Chesterton Christian Church consciousness creed death declares deny divorce doctrine dogmas duty Ellen Key England English translation Ernst Haeckel eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel Francis Thompson free love Hound of Heaven human ideal immortality inevitable Ingersoll John Stuart Mill Kant live logical Maeterlinck man's mankind marriage materialistic matter Matthew Arnold means ment mental merely mind miracles Miss Key Miss Key's modern monistic monogamy moral mysticism nations nature never orthodox philosophic physical possible principle Professor Haeckel prove question reality reason religion religious riddles scientific Scott seems sense Shelley Sir Oliver Lodge social society soul spirit Stanton Coit suffering suicide teaching theology things Thompson thou thought tion to-day true truth universe utter W. K. Clifford woman women words write
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الصفحة 21 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
الصفحة 273 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
الصفحة 11 - ... Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
الصفحة 274 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
الصفحة 10 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant : would this be a great joy and happiness to you ?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, " No !" At this my heart sank within me : the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.
الصفحة 254 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
الصفحة 274 - A time for labour and thought, A time to serve and to sin; They gave him light in his ways, And love, and a space for delight, And beauty and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night. His speech is a burning fire; With his lips he travaileth; In his heart is a blind desire, In his eyes foreknowledge of death; He weaves, and is clothed with derision; Sows, and he shall not reap; His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
الصفحة 33 - Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.
الصفحة 11 - I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living, when life must be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself, that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year. When, however, not more than half that duration of time had elapsed, a small ray of light broke in upon my gloom. I was reading, accidentally, Marmontel's "Memoires...
الصفحة 9 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized: that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely affected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?