Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Most surely Ibrahim was forbearing, tender-hearted, oft-returning (to Allah): / O Ibrahim! leave off this, surely the decree of your Lord has come to pass, and surely there must come to them a chastisement that cannot be averted.
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All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: / He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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Psalms 2:7:
I will proclaim the LORD's decree: He said to me, 'You are my son; today I have become your father.'
(NIV)
I will declare the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, You are My Son; this day [I declare] I have begotten You. [Heb. 1:5; 3:5, 6; II Pet. 1:17, 18.](AMP)
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
(KJV)
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Psalms 138:2:
I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame.
(NIV)
I will worship toward Your holy temple and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; for You have exalted above all else Your name and Your word and You have magnified Your word above all Your name!
(AMP)
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
(KJV)
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Luke 2:1:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
(NIV)
IN THOSE days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered.
(AMP)
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
(KJV)
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And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
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