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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Neligious (Classic Reprint) John Ruskin Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 4 - There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough : The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Página 25 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 8 - The highest and first law of the universe — and the other name of life, is, therefore, " help." The other name of death is " separation." Government and co-operation are in all things and eternally the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, eternally, and in all things, the laws of death.
Página 56 - And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Página 9 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God muketh from the beginning to the end.
Página 59 - If, for every rebuke that we utter of men's vices, we put forth a claim upon their hearts ; if, for every assertion of God's demands from them, we could substitute a display of His kindness to them; if, side by side with every warning of death, we could exhibit proofs and...
Página 60 - God's will, while men are perishing round about us, while grief, and pain, and wrath, and impiety, and death, and all the powers of the air, are working wildly and evermore, and the cry of blood going up to heaven, that any of us should take hand from the plough ; but this we know, that there will come a time when the service of God shall be the beholding of him ; and though in these stormy seas, where we are now driven up and down, his Spirit is dimly seen on the face of the waters, and we are left...
Página 25 - So far as you desire to possess, rather than to give; so far as you look for power to command, instead of to bless; so far as your own prosperity seems to you to issue out of contest or rivalry, of any kind, with other men, or other nations; so long as the hope before you is for supremacy instead of love; and your desire is to be greatest, instead of...
Página 51 - I have said that it prompts us to the offering of precious things merely because they are precious, not because they are useful or necessary. It is a spirit, for instance, which of two marbles, equally beautiful, applicable and durable, would choose the more costly because it was so, and of two kinds of...
Página 50 - ... crystal, waved as water, poured out upon the ground; — you may defile it, despise it, pollute it, at your pleasure and at your peril; for on the peace of those weak waves must all the heaven you shall ever gain be first seen; and through such purity as you can win for those dark waves, must all the light of the risen Sun of Righteousness be bent down, by faint refraction. Cleanse them, and calm them, as you love your life.