work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5070,"","Searching in HDIS (Prose); Found again searching ""law"" and ""heart""",2005-03-10 00:00:00 UTC,"""This, said a philosopher, who had heard him with tokens of great impatience, is the present condition of a wise man. The time is already come, when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to enquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity. He that lives according to nature will suffer nothing from the delusions of hope, or importunities of desire: he will receive and reject with equability of temper; and act or suffer as the reason of things shall alternately prescribe. Other men may amuse themselves with subtle definitions, or intricate raciocination. Let them learn to be wise by easier means: let them observe the hind of the forest, and the linnet of the grove: let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct; they obey their guide and are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live; throw away the incumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry with us this simple and intelligible maxim, That deviation from nature is deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.""
(pp. 144-5)",2009-08-14,13609,•I've included twice: Law and Engraving,"""The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity.""",Court,2009-09-14 19:38:49 UTC,"Vol I, Chapt. 22"
5129,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"Now the God of peace, that brought, &c.
--xiii. 20, 21.
O God of peace, and pardoning love,
Thy bowels of compassion move
To every sinful child of man;
Jesus our Shepherd great and good,
Who dying bought us with His blood,
Thou hast brought back to life again:
His blood to all our souls apply;
His only blood can sanctify,
(Which first did for our sins atone,)
The covenant of redemption seal,
The depths of God, of love, reveal,
And speak us perfected in one.
O might our every work and word
Express the tempers of our Lord,
The nature of our Head above!
His Spirit send into our hearts,
Engraving on our inward parts
The living law of holiest love:
Then shall we do with pure delight
Whate'er is pleasing in Thy sight,
As vessels of Thy richest grace;
And having Thy whole counsel done,
To Thee, and Thy co-equal Son
Ascribe the everlasting praise.
",,13842,"•This from Hebrews 8:20, 21
•I've included twice: Engraving and Law","""His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love""","",2009-09-14 19:39:20 UTC,I've included the entire poem