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... SUFFERING XV PAIN • XVI SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE XVII LONGEVITY XVIII THE BIBLE AND HEALTH XIX HEALTH AND RELIGION INDEX • PAGE 1 8 33 59 • 80 109 • 120 • 132 • 147 • 168 184 • 205 · 217 • 234 • 254 265 • 277 294 · 306 • 319 333 • RELIGION ...
... SUFFERING XV PAIN • XVI SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE XVII LONGEVITY XVIII THE BIBLE AND HEALTH XIX HEALTH AND RELIGION INDEX • PAGE 1 8 33 59 • 80 109 • 120 • 132 • 147 • 168 184 • 205 · 217 • 234 • 254 265 • 277 294 · 306 • 319 333 • RELIGION ...
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... suffer less from disease , for after all discomfort depends on two factors , one the irrita- tion and the other the mode of its reception . An irri- table person will suffer tortures , though under the same circumstances a placid ...
... suffer less from disease , for after all discomfort depends on two factors , one the irrita- tion and the other the mode of its reception . An irri- table person will suffer tortures , though under the same circumstances a placid ...
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... Suffering then comes to have a real meaning that any one , even the least intellectual , can understand , and by that very fact it becomes easier to bear . I have often found that I could do a great deal for nervous patients by ...
... Suffering then comes to have a real meaning that any one , even the least intellectual , can understand , and by that very fact it becomes easier to bear . I have often found that I could do a great deal for nervous patients by ...
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... suffer from nervous prostration . Men and women of prayer seldom suffer from nervous prostration in the ordinary ... suffering and pain , that is discussed in the chapters on these special subjects . Raising the mind and heart to God ...
... suffer from nervous prostration . Men and women of prayer seldom suffer from nervous prostration in the ordinary ... suffering and pain , that is discussed in the chapters on these special subjects . Raising the mind and heart to God ...
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... sufferings of life harder to bear than they would other- wise be and will sometimes lift the little discomforts that are almost inevitably associated with living up to a plane of superconsciousness on which they seem to be torments ...
... sufferings of life harder to bear than they would other- wise be and will sometimes lift the little discomforts that are almost inevitably associated with living up to a plane of superconsciousness on which they seem to be torments ...
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Page 289 - ... tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 167 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 289 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 236 - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 237 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 289 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 305 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 166 - AUSTERITY OF POETRY. That son of Italy who tried to blow ', Ere Dante came, the trump of sacred song, In his light youth amid a festal throng Sate with his bride to see a public show. Fair was the bride, and on her front did glow Youth like a star ; and what to youth belong — Gay raiment, sparkling gauds, elation strong. A prop gave way ! crash fell a platform ! lo, 1 Giacoponc di Todi.
Page 28 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 151 - ... so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.