Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
Milly's act of renouncement she had described but as a change for the worse; she had mentioned Lord Mark's descent, as even without her it might be known, so that she mustn't appear to conceal it; but she had suppressed explanations and connexions, and indeed, for all he knew, blessed Puritan soul, had invented commendable fictions. Thus it was absolutely that he was at his ease.
"I confess that this theory seems to me difficult to sustain." "On the contrary, it is most simple. Is not abnegation one of the greatest virtues known?" "Undoubtedly." "Well, my dear Louis, I defy you to cite me a monastic order whose members practice the renouncement of worldly pleasures more absolutely and sincerely than the miser.
And his renouncement is truly the more heroic, because he has within his grasp all the delights and enchantments of soul, mind and senses, and possesses the incredible courage to refuse them all. There is strength, there is the triumph of an energetic will."
"Not as we've met not THERE!" He stood aghast at this snap of their great bond, at the renouncement that rang out in the word she so expressively sounded. "But what's changed for you?" She waited in all the sharpness of a trouble that for the first time since he had known her made her splendidly stern. "How can you understand now when you didn't understand before?"
There was beauty in his face, in his ascetic and over-refined features, in his sympathetic smile and his cultured voice; but it was the beauty of resignation, of defeat nobly borne, of a spirit confirmed in the bitter sweetness of renouncement. "It would make an old woman of me to marry him," she thought, "an old, patient, resigned woman."
The banishment of servitude, the renouncement of hireling labor and the elevation of all unavoidable work to its true station, are problems whose solution seems to be charged upon Association; for the dissociate systems have in vain sought remedies for this unfavorable portion of human condition.
In the Vedas there are precepts of both kinds, viz., those that inculcate action and those that inculcate renouncement of action. The scriptures are confounding and their conclusions are based upon reasons. The truth, however, that is in the Mantras, is duly known to me. Thou art conversant only with weapons and observant of the practices of heroes.
And he who is bent on renouncement had best, first of all, forswear the delights of pride, for these are wholly vain and wholly deceptive. Within reach of all, demanding neither boldness nor energy, is this "enchantment of the disenchanted!"
"I had nothing to give up, mother," replied Cynthia quietly, and in the few words her heart's tragedy was written since of all lives, the saddest is the one that can find nothing worthy of renouncement. There were hours when she felt that any bitter personal past that the recollection of a single despairing kiss or a blighted love would have filled her days with happiness.
Then I reproached myself for what I had done and my soul was weary after a life of ease and comfort; and I said to myself, "O Sindbad, O Seaman, thou repentest not and yet thou art ever suffering hardships and travails; yet wilt thou not renounce sea-travel; or, an thou say, 'I renounce, thou liest in thy renouncement.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking