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  The Teachings of Zoroaster AND The Philosophy of the Parsi Religion Translated with Introduction by DR


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id: 16065
title: Wise or Otherwise
author: Leavitt, Thad. W. H. (Thaddeus William Henry)
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  "Lead, kindly light." The words are gravely spoken by the middle-aged, His companion said, "Now will he be happy," but her own great heart "We hear men speak so frequently of womanly women, ending their praises There are women who consider the world well lost for the man whom they Take marriage, for instance:--A young woman marries a man who is A woman may defy the world for a man she loves, and imagine that he will human nature; gives love of oriental luxury to the woman with nothing a There is no music for man so sweet as that set upon a woman''s tongue. The promise of eternal sleep is not sweet to a live man. Nature must love woman to fashion her so beautiful. men and saddens the hearts of women. A woman without love is a tree without sap. The man who stains the purity of a woman tarnishes his own soul.


id: 20718
title: The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman''s Whimsies
author: Glyn, Elinor
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  And the Damsel said to the Sage: "And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear?" asked the Damsel. "No one," said the Sage; "the first man went about with only one ear; "I want to know," said the Damsel, "why a woman who has Diamonds and "It means, first of all," said the Sage, "that the woman is a fool, as desirable bird in the world; and when the man realizes he has lost it "Please open the door, Sage," entreated the Damsel, "and I will tell you you bite my hand!'' Now tell me, Sage, which was right--the man or the The Sage was fairly gracious, and to while away the time the Damsel "Thank you, Damsel," said the Sage, gently for him; "but the Fisherman "That would be for another day," said the Damsel; "and--for another Tell me, Sage, why did this action cure the Dove of its great love


id: 30508
title: The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke''Gemni The Oldest Books in the World
author: Kagemna
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  desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be Ptah-Hotep--Concerning the Book--The Treatise of Ke''Gemni--Date of the give, among other matters, the place of the Instructions of Ptah-hotep thousand years old is no easy thing to translate; but _faute de mieux_ thou art grown, and hast taken to thee a wife, being master in thy thee with all good things, as did thy mother. Speak when he questioneth thee; so shall thy speech be good in his God shall make it great under thine hand. good before the God. If thou have known a man of none account that C. If thou obey these things that I have said unto thee, all thy instruct a man; how he shall speak, after he hath heard them; yea, he Instruct thy son [thus]; for the obedient man is one thine heart, what time thou speakest, to saying things such that the


id: 31672
title: The Triads of Ireland
author: nan
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  Trí clochraid Hérenn: Ard Macha, Clúain Maic Nóis, Cell Dara. Trí díthruib Hérenn: Fid Mór hi Cúailgni, Fid Déicsen hi Tuirtri, The three desert places of Ireland: Fid Mór (Great Wood) in Coolney, Trí hátha Hérenn: Áth Clíath, Áth Lúain, Áth Caille. Trí maige Hérenn: Mag mBreg, Mag Crúachan, Mac Liphi. Trí hessa Hérenn: Ess Rúaid, Ess Danainne, Ess Maige. Trí fothirbi Hérenn: Tír Rátha Laidcniáin, Slíab Commáin, Slíab Trí hairderca Hérenn: Léimm Conculaind, Dún Cáin, Srub Brain. Trí gnátha Hérenn: Tráig Lí, Lúachair Dedad, Slíab Fúait. Trí dotcaid maic athaig: clemnas fri hócthigern, gabáil for tascor Three excellent things for a householder: proposing to a good woman, Trí ségainni Hérenn: fáthrann, adbann a cruit, berrad aigthe. Trí scenb Hérenn: Tulach na nEpscop, Ached Déo, Duma mBúirig. Trí ná dlegat athchommus: mac [et] a athair, ben [et] a céile, dóer Trí galair ata ferr sláinti: seola mná for mac, gríss bronn-galair trí clochraid 34.


id: 26604
title: Pearls of Thought
author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
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  namely, the mind and the soul of man.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ Man makes a death which nature never made.--_Young._ Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is humiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we love ~Infirmities.~--Never mind what a man''s virtues are; waste no time in Loves change sure as man or moon, and wane like warm full days of The love of man to woman is a thing common, and of course, and at first I considered how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great! not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that envy, and wounds no man''s self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ love of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom they To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so


id: 10741
title: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life
author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
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  pre-eminently strong; a man placed like this will never feel happy all great development in man, whose intellect is Nature''s crowning point, knowledge, this intellectual life, like a slowly-forming work of art, The ordinary man places his life''s happiness in things external to the latter point of view, to be _a man of honor_ is to exercise what The feelings of honor and shame exist in every man who is not utterly Honor, therefore, means that a man is not _Official honor_ is the general opinion of other people that a man who military honor, in the true sense of the word, the opinion that people the man who is insulted remains--in the eyes of all _honorable application of the principle of honor: the man who recognized no human As a general rule, the longer a man''s fame is likely to last, the The truth is that a man is made happy, not by fame,


id: 9105
title: Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
author: La Rochefoucauld, François duc de
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  "As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature--I believe them true. life-time, yet in every English edition this Maxim appears in the body to be a wholly good man that my friend cannot afford me a greater He has great presence of mind, and knows so well how to turn and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like 25.--We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. 88.--Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our 93.--Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to 422.--All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us 494.--What makes us see that men know their faults better than we I do not think that any man of good sense has ever yet believed in it.


id: 10715
title: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
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  after the pleasures of life and finds himself their dupe; the wise man way of happiness than any form of practical life, with its constant it may be said that solitude is the original and natural state of man, In making his way through life, a man will find it useful to be ready People of similar nature, on the other hand, immediately come to feel In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon In this way the earliest years of a man''s life lay the foundation of But why is it that to an old man his past life appears so short? that time of life a man can make more out of the little that he knows. man''s life; and yet often, in the one case no less than in the other, At that time of life, _what a man has in himself_ is of


id: 36821
title: Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing
author: Penn, Richard
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  in the water, a good fish will always hook himself, on your gently only two cases in which a fish taking the fly will infallibly hook think that you can make a better guess as to where the fish is likely to If, during your walks by the river-side, you have marked any good fish, tired." Much valuable time and many a good fish may be lost by this man who seldom catches a fish at any other time, usually gets hold of Our angler, after much patient fishing, hooked a fine trout; and having Fishing for the first time with flies of your own making--and finding Being allowed to have one day''s fishing in a stream, the windings of fish; and then having the identical fly, lost by you on that occasion, or even to his friend Thompson, that the very fine fish, about which he


