Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern AuthorsHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 579 páginas |
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... no defect is a fool or a hypocrite , whom we should mistrust . There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they an- Only what we have wrought into our char - nounce them , defects which it is well not to acter during life can we ...
... no defect is a fool or a hypocrite , whom we should mistrust . There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they an- Only what we have wrought into our char - nounce them , defects which it is well not to acter during life can we ...
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... do it , on equal terms with others . It costs them only one If a man empties his purse into his head , no day ; but me three , the first in sinning , the one can take it from him . - Franklin . second in suffering , and the third in ...
... do it , on equal terms with others . It costs them only one If a man empties his purse into his head , no day ; but me three , the first in sinning , the one can take it from him . - Franklin . second in suffering , and the third in ...
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... Those who can command themselves com- SELF - DECEIT . mand others ... their agitation in their hearts . Rochefoucauld . Over the time thou hast no power ; to re- deem a world sunk in dishonesty has not ... part of his play , - who can work upon ...
... Those who can command themselves com- SELF - DECEIT . mand others ... their agitation in their hearts . Rochefoucauld . Over the time thou hast no power ; to re- deem a world sunk in dishonesty has not ... part of his play , - who can work upon ...
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... will also talk what he know- eth not ; therefore set it down that a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral and in this part it is good , that a man's face gives his tongue leave to speak ; for the discovery of a man's self by the tracts ...
... will also talk what he know- eth not ; therefore set it down that a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral and in this part it is good , that a man's face gives his tongue leave to speak ; for the discovery of a man's self by the tracts ...
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actions atheism Ballou beauty Ben Jonson better Bulwer Lytton character Cicero Colton conscience death divine doth Douglas Jerrold earth Emerson enemy envy eternal everything evil eyes faith fear feel flatter flowers folly fool fortune friendship genius give glory Goethe grace greatest grief happiness hath heart heaven honor hope Hosea Ballou human Jane Porter Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor knowledge labor less light live look Madame Swetchine man's mankind mind misery moral nature ness never noble ourselves pain passion person pleasure praise pride Publius Syrus reason religion rich Rochefoucauld sense Shakespeare Sidney smile sorrow soul speak spirit sweet taste Taylor tears thee Theodore Parker things thou thought tion tongue true truth vanity vice virtue Washington Irving Wilhelm von Humboldt William Penn wisdom wise woman words young youth
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Página 239 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Página 117 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Página 389 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Página 17 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 139 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 14 - 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 8 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 303 - 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 291 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 99 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.