item: #1 of 16 id: 10741 author: Schopenhauer, Arthur title: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life date: None words: 38488 flesch: 61 summary: The same doom is awarded to a woman who breaks the marriage tie; for in so doing she is false to the terms upon which the man capitulated; and as her conduct is such as to frighten other men from making a similar surrender, it imperils the welfare of all her sisters. Lastly, if, as we saw above, civic honor is very scrupulous in the matter of _meum_ and _tuum_, paying great respect to obligations and a promise once made, the code we are here discussing displays, on the other hand, the noblest liberality. keywords: case; character; circumstances; degree; end; existence; fact; fame; footnote; form; good; great; hand; happiness; honor; intellect; kind; knightly; life; man; matter; means; mind; nature; nay; opinion; people; pleasure; power; reason; right; thing; time; value; view; way; wealth; work; world cache: 10741.txt plain text: 10741.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 11248 author: Swedenborg, Emanuel title: The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love date: None words: 259856 flesch: 62 summary: _With man conjugial love is in the love of the sex as a gem in its matrix. The reason why none can be principled in spiritual conjugial love, but those who are of the above description by virtue of conjunction with the Lord, is, because heaven is in this love; and the natural man, whose conjugial love derives its pleasure only from the flesh, cannot approach to heaven nor to any angel, no, nor to any man principled in this love, it being the foundation of all celestial and spiritual loves; which may be seen above, n. 65-67. keywords: adulteries; adultery; affections; angels; body; case; causes; chaste; church; cold; conjugial; conjunction; death; delights; divine; earth; end; evil; external; form; god; good; heat; heaven; hell; husband; internal; life; like; lord; love; love commence; lust; man; marriage; men; mind; nature; order; origin; partners; place; principle; quality; reason; religion; respecting; sex; soul; sphere; spiritual; state; things; time; truth; understanding; wife; wisdom; wives; woman; world cache: 11248.txt plain text: 11248.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 13407 author: Atkinson, William Walker title: A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom date: None words: 77200 flesch: 66 summary: The ever present Desire of the Creative Will causes lower forms to be succeeded by higher forms--and is the moving cause of evolution--it is the Evolutionary Urge itself, which ever cries to its manifestations, Move on; move upward. Evolution shows us Life constantly pressing forward toward higher and still higher forms of expression. keywords: absolute; animal; body; cause; come; consciousness; day; earth; energy; evolution; forms; idea; infinite; karma; law; lesson; life; living; man; manifestation; material; matter; mind; nature; planes; power; principle; process; real; reality; reason; science; soul; spirit; spiritual; teachings; things; thought; time; truth; universe; water; way; work; world; yogi cache: 13407.txt plain text: 13407.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 13815 author: None title: The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom date: None words: 73426 flesch: 85 summary: Well, Reynard, Said he, and what scent do you discover here? The Tortoise rejoined; How can it be that ye should speak with a view to my advantage, and I fail to perform a compact which is for my own good? Said the Geese: The condition is that when we take thee up and fly through the air thou wilt not utter a single syllable, for any one who may happen to see us will be sure to throw in a word, and say something in reference to us directly or indirectly. keywords: aesop; ass; birds; cat; children; day; deer; dog; eagle; elephant; fables; father; fontaine; food; forest; fox; friend; good; great; greek; ground; head; hen; home; jackal; king; life; lion; lord; man; master; men; monkey; mother; mouse; people; place; rat; saying; thee; thing; thou; thought; tiger; time; tree; water; way; wolf; young cache: 13815.txt plain text: 13815.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 16627 author: Swedenborg, Emanuel title: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom date: None words: 96763 flesch: 65 summary: In man love and wisdom appear as two separate things, yet in themselves they are one distinctly, because with man wisdom is such as the love is, and love is such as the wisdom is. With man love and wisdom appear as two separate things, because with him the capacity for understanding may be elevated into the light of heaven, but not the capacity for loving, except so far as he acts according to his understanding. keywords: angels; body; degrees; divine; form; god; heat; heaven; life; light; like; lord; love; man; mind; natural; spiritual; sun; things; thought; truth; understanding; uses; wisdom; world cache: 16627.txt plain text: 16627.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 18507 author: Swedenborg, Emanuel title: Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence date: None words: 135926 flesch: 73 summary: The reverse occurs with the inwardly good who outwardly like other men have acquired wealth, sought distinction, delighted in the mundane, and indulged some lusts. But after a time they begin to think, as they did in the world, that they are washed, as it were, from all evil, and to glory that they are no longer sinners like other men. keywords: affections; church; divine; evil; external; faith; form; freedom; god; good; heaven; hell; human; infinite; internal; life; light; lord; love; man; means; mind; nature; providence; reason; self; spiritual; state; things; think; thought; time; truth; understanding; wisdom; world cache: 18507.txt plain text: 18507.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 19363 author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery title: Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles date: None words: 7449 flesch: 82 summary: [Illustration] THE MIRROR Br'er Donkey, drinkin' at de brook, Surveys hisself wid offish look, An' 'low: You Jackass makes too free! But de darkie rates it twice-t mo' sweet, 'Ca'ze it's ap' to b'long to de yether man, An' it's mighty hard to lif' by sleight o' han'. keywords: br'er; daddy; dat; dey; deyselves; erself; illustration; isself; man; nuver; ol'; sis; way; wid; yo'self cache: 19363.txt plain text: 19363.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 22019 author: Ouida title: Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida date: None words: 141985 flesch: 81 summary: It is ungrateful to great men, I grant; but it has the irritation of its own vague sense that it is but their tool, their ladder, their grappling-iron, to excuse it. And yet again--a thing without which laughter and jest were dead in the sad lives of the populace; a thing that breathes the poet's words of fire so that the humblest heart is set aflame; a thing that has a magic on its lips to waken smiles or weeping at its will; a thing which holds a people silent, breathless, intoxicated with mirth or with awe, as it chooses; a thing whose grace kings envy, and whose wit great men will steal; a thing by whose utterance alone the poor can know the fair follies of a thoughtless hour, and escape for a little space from the dull prisons of their colourless lives into the sunlit paradise where genius dwells--_that_ is a player, too! keywords: age; air; beauty; birds; black; blood; blue; boy; brown; care; child; children; city; cold; colour; country; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; die; doubt; earth; eyes; face; fair; faith; feet; fields; fire; flowers; france; genius; glory; god; gods; gold; golden; good; grass; great; green; grey; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; human; king; leaves; left; lie; life; light; like; lips; little; lives; living; look; love; man; men; moment; music; nature; new; pain; passion; past; people; pity; place; poor; power; red; rose; round; save; saw; sea; sense; set; silence; smile; society; song; soul; stone; strength; summer; sun; thing; thought; time; truth; voice; want; water; way; white; wind; winter; woman; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 22019.txt plain text: 22019.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 33109 author: Wortabet, John title: Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic date: None words: 12715 flesch: 86 summary: Small men transgress, great men forgive. Next to faith in God, the chief duty of man is to treat his fellow men with gentleness and courtesy. keywords: = =; day; death; evil; friend; god; good; kindness; koran; life; love; man; men; thee; thing; truth cache: 33109.txt plain text: 33109.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 36759 author: Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden) title: Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles date: None words: 26088 flesch: 82 summary: The truth was, Maud had a feeling that, if poor little Daisy had an angel to watch over her, she, who was so much more beautiful, could not be left to perish. When any of these things happened, of course poor Daisy had to be scolded, as if it were her fault. keywords: daisy; dame; face; fairy; father; girl; heart; home; look; maud; mother; peter; sister; spectacles; susan; thought cache: 36759.txt plain text: 36759.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 3728 author: Richardson, Henry Handel title: The Getting of Wisdom date: None words: 74351 flesch: 84 summary: In a very short time, there was no more persistent shrinker from the ice of this gaze than little Laura. And so Laura, who was still, in her young confusion, unequal to discovering what was wanted of her, grew comforted by the presence and support of her friends, and unmindful of higher opinion; and Miss Chapman, in supervising evening lessons, remarked with genuine regret that little Laura was growing perky and lazy. keywords: bed; boys; chapman; child; class; course; day; dear; door; dress; end; evelyn; eyes; face; girl; godmother; good; great; gurley; half; hand; head; heart; home; kind; know; laura; life; look; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; past; people; pin; place; room; round; sarah; school; set; strachey; tell; things; think; thought; tilly; time; want; way; words; young cache: 3728.txt plain text: 3728.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 39808 author: Morgan, Godfrey Charles title: Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar date: None words: 27409 flesch: 79 summary: In the old Town Hall of Newport many great celebrities have received testimonials, compliments and honours--warriors, church dignitaries, financiers and great politicians; but I do not think any circumstance like the present one has arisen before, and there could not be a more interesting ceremony than that which we are about to perform. England is like old Tredegar House, and you will find that the customs now prevailing have been in vogue for over 500 years. keywords: ball; cardiff; church; country; day; deal; december; dinner; good; hope; house; illustration; licensed; life; look; lord; man; men; morgan; newport; october; people; place; present; school; thought; time; town; tredegar; way; world; years cache: 39808.txt plain text: 39808.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 4349 author: Maeterlinck, Maurice title: Wisdom and Destiny date: None words: 56561 flesch: 68 summary: To the soul that is slowly awakening all appears sacrifice; but few things indeed are so called by the soul that at last lives the life whereof self-denial, pity, devotion, are no longer indispensable roots, but only invisible flowers. And think you that when the hour sounds the gift of a Socrates or Marcus Aurelius--who lived many lives, for many a time had they compassed their whole life around--do you think such a gift is not worth a thousand times more than what would be given by him who had never stepped over the threshold of consciousness? keywords: beauty; consciousness; day; death; desire; destiny; duty; eyes; good; happiness; heart; joy; justice; know; life; light; love; man; men; reason; sage; self; sorrow; soul; strength; things; thought; time; truth; virtue; wisdom; world cache: 4349.txt plain text: 4349.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 44989 author: Mizner, Addison title: The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner date: None words: 3737 flesch: 95 summary: (T & M) Think of your ancestors and your posterity and you will never marry. (T) Look before you sleep. keywords: company; elder; illustration; man; motto; people cache: 44989.txt plain text: 44989.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 4662 author: None title: Narcissism Book of Quotes A Selection of Quotes from the Collective Wisdom of over 12,000 Individual Discussions date: None words: 30 flesch: 86 summary: RTF is Rich Text Format, and is readable in nearly any modern word processing program. Please see the corresponding RTF file for this eBook. keywords: rtf cache: 4662.txt plain text: 4662.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 8325 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision date: None words: 12033 flesch: 86 summary: For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind. For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid. 10:9. keywords: god; good; hath; lord; man; men; thee; things; thou; thy; wicked; wisdom cache: 8325.txt plain text: 8325.txt