Bible of Reason ...

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Wright & Owen, 1831
 

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Page 158 - I've been From all I've heard— from all I've seen? What know I more that's worth the knowing ? What have I done that's worth the doing ? What have I sought that I should ' shun? What duties have I left undone ? Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road, That leads to virtue and to God.
Page 26 - Do you not see, therefore, how from the productions of nature, and the useful inventions of men, have arisen fictitious and imaginary Deities; which have been the foundation of false opinions, pernicious errors, and wretched superstitions ? For we know how the different forms of the Gods, their ages, apparel, ornaments, their...
Page 235 - Virtue alone is a sufficient foundation for a happy life. Virtue consists, not in a vain ostentation of learning, or an idle display of words, but in a steady course of right conduct. Wisdom and virtue are the same. A wise man will always be contented with his condition, and will live rather according to the precepts of virtue, than according to the laws or customs of his country. Wisdom is a secure and impregnable fortress; virtue, armor which cannot be taken away.
Page 247 - True happiness is to no spot confin'd; If you preserve a firm and equal mind, 'Tis here, 'tis there, and everywhere.
Page 154 - ... for the advantages of fortune, a few, and indeed but a few, who are not desirous of money nor ambitious of fame, are sufficiently gratified to be spectators of the wonder, the hurry, and the magnificence of the scene.
Page 73 - Do nothing shameful though you are alone; revere yourself more than all other men. A man must either be good or seem to be so. Every country is open...
Page 249 - Like rivers from their fountain, rolling on. For time, no more than streams, is at a stay ; The flying hour is ever on her way ; And as the fountain still supplies her store, The wave behind impels the wave before, Thus in successive course the minutes run, And urge their predecessor minutes on...
Page 238 - ... the ground of experience, the existence of a self-determining power in man, and hence inferred that all things did not happen, as the stoics maintained, in a necessary series of causes and effects, and consequently, that it is impossible for the gods to predict events dependent on the will of man. As the foundation of morals, he taught, that the ultimate end of life is the enjoyment of those things, towards which we are directed by the principles of nature. Such...
Page 76 - Nobody will believe you when you speak ill of me, any more than they would believe me should I speak well of you.
Page 246 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.

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