This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...that step, which has made every other stumble, destroys the power of principle and the glow of virtue. For greatness, for ascendency, for indepen dence, for usefulness, this early error is the life-long disqualification. Young men! remember this lesson. You talk sometimes of sowing your wild oats, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...that step, which has made every other stumble, destroys the power of principle and the glow of virtue. For greatness, for ascendency, for indepen dence, for usefulness, this early error is the life-long disqualification. Young men! remember this lesson. You talk sometimes of sowing your wild oats, and then having done with them; but if wild oats are the seed, then wild oats will be the harvest, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Finally, consider the action of the law of remorse. We know by experience that we are happy or miserable according to the moral quality of our conduct. Just as light gives pleasure to the eye, or music pleasure to the ear, so virtue imparts satisfaction to the mind. Vice, on the other hand, produces misery. Men often rejoice in the success of their evil deeds, when they find no pleasure in the deeds themselves; they would gladly dispense with the means, if they could gain the end without their use. How often the attendants on wrongdoing are shame, remorse, and dread! "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind, The thief doth fear each bush an officer." Macbeth and his wife feared, after Duncan's murder, to dwell on the guilty deed. He, hearing a noise, exclaims, --"Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? Ah! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine, Making the green one red." She fears the dark, --walks in her sleep, --pretends to wash her hands, --and cries out, "Here's a spot.--Will these hands ne'er be clean?--Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this...
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Add this copy of Lessons of Life, 9 Lectures to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Palala Press.
