A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and ModernTryon Edwards F. B. Dickerson Company, 1908 - 644 páginas |
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... common theatre or scene . - Burton . Because I will not do the wrong to mis trust any , I will do myself the right to trus none ; I will live a bachelor . - Shakespeare . A man unattached , and without a wife , if he have any genius at ...
... common theatre or scene . - Burton . Because I will not do the wrong to mis trust any , I will do myself the right to trus none ; I will live a bachelor . - Shakespeare . A man unattached , and without a wife , if he have any genius at ...
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... common parent : that they control the baleful passions of the heart , and thus make men proficient in self- government ; and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a being of infinite holiness , and fill him with ...
... common parent : that they control the baleful passions of the heart , and thus make men proficient in self- government ; and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a being of infinite holiness , and fill him with ...
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... common , men forget to pay their praises . - But let not us , because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to him who still protects us , and gives us flowers , and showers , and meat , and con- tent . - Izaak Walton . Reflect upon your ...
... common , men forget to pay their praises . - But let not us , because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to him who still protects us , and gives us flowers , and showers , and meat , and con- tent . - Izaak Walton . Reflect upon your ...
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... common to us by nature , it is the members of our corporeal frame ; yet the apostle taught that these , guided by the spirit as its instruments , and obeying a holy will , become transfigured , so that , in his language , the body ...
... common to us by nature , it is the members of our corporeal frame ; yet the apostle taught that these , guided by the spirit as its instruments , and obeying a holy will , become transfigured , so that , in his language , the body ...
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... common species .-- Scneca . Jesus throws down the dividing preju- dices of nationality , and teaches universal love , without distinction of race , merit , or rank . A man's neighbor is every one that needs help . - All men , from the ...
... common species .-- Scneca . Jesus throws down the dividing preju- dices of nationality , and teaches universal love , without distinction of race , merit , or rank . A man's neighbor is every one that needs help . - All men , from the ...
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Página 478 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 439 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 530 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 440 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 296 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 328 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 505 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 521 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Página 386 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 467 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.