The Library of Original Sources, Volumen5

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Oliver Joseph Thatcher
University Research Extension, 1907
 

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Página 318 - THAT WE ARE is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Página 400 - Good government obtains, when those who are near are made happy, and those who are far off are attracted." XVII. Tsze-hea, being governor of Keu-foo, asked about government. The Master said, " Do not be desirous to have things done quickly ; do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Página 334 - He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Página 82 - When they write or calculate, instead of going, like the Greeks, from left to right, they move their hand from right to left; and they insist, notwithstanding, that it is they who go to the right, and the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing, one of which is called sacred, the other common. They are religious to excess, far beyond any other race of men...
Página 107 - He who gives life, he who gives strength ; whose command all the Bright Gods revere ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death.
Página 318 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Página 252 - ... so long as they honour and esteem and revere and support the Vajjian shrines 2 in town or country, and allow not the proper offerings and rites, as formerly given and performed, to fall into desuetude...
Página 152 - And as a goldsmith, taking a piece of gold, turns it into another, newer and more beautiful shape, so does this Self, after having thrown off this body and dispelled all ignorance, make unto himself another, newer and more beautiful shape...
Página 192 - Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where one sees something else, hears something else, understands something else, that is the finite. The Infinite is immortal, the finite is mortal.
Página 319 - EARNESTNESS is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.

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