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Letter "A" » aright
«I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.»
«He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Truth
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aright, guide, In God We Trust, providence, safely
«And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright»
«For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: / That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: / That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: / And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.»
«I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Direction
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actual, aright, distinctly, fain, heedlessness, indifferent, Interior, liable, no doubt, symbolical, Take That, unconsciously, yield
«Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.»
«If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright»
«Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Wisdom
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aright, equally, fleeing, flees, fortitude, in public, meeting, parts, private parts, subdues, subduing, temperance
«Report me and my cause aright.»
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