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“Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?”

Ifs Government Evil Attention Tongue Vain Truth Revealed

Book:Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life

Source: Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.”

Ifs Love Giving Doe Attention Kindness Teaching Advice Produce Masters Fingers Vain Monk Snaps Loving Kindness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.”

Men Pain Attention Dying Harmony Tongue Breathe Vain Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series