Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed sentences, remarks and apophthegms of the greatest geniuses of ancient and modern times. To which are added, Thoughts, from the diary of a young man. By A. SteinmetzAndrew Steinmetz 1838 |
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... perfect in all its parts . - Ib . 46 . If a man's ears are closed to truth , and cannot endure it , even from the mouth of a friend , his case is hopeless . - Ib . 47 . However pernicious flattery may be , it can injure but those who ...
... perfect in all its parts . - Ib . 46 . If a man's ears are closed to truth , and cannot endure it , even from the mouth of a friend , his case is hopeless . - Ib . 47 . However pernicious flattery may be , it can injure but those who ...
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... perfect kind of know- ledge , it must essentially produce the most perfect kind of happiness . It is the golden , everlasting chain , let down from heaven to earth ; the ladder that appeared to the patriarch in his dream ; when he ...
... perfect kind of know- ledge , it must essentially produce the most perfect kind of happiness . It is the golden , everlasting chain , let down from heaven to earth ; the ladder that appeared to the patriarch in his dream ; when he ...
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... perfect wisdom . - Ib . 530 . It generally argues some degree of natural impo- tence of mind , or some want of knowledge of the world , to hazard plans of government , except from a seat of authority . - Ib . 531 . Philosophical ...
... perfect wisdom . - Ib . 530 . It generally argues some degree of natural impo- tence of mind , or some want of knowledge of the world , to hazard plans of government , except from a seat of authority . - Ib . 531 . Philosophical ...
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... perfect friendship . - Ib . 600 . Sudden love is the longest to be cured . — Ib . 601 . Love , which grows slow and leisurely , is too like friendship ever to be a violent passion . — Ib . 602 . As sure as we are in love , we pardon ...
... perfect friendship . - Ib . 600 . Sudden love is the longest to be cured . — Ib . 601 . Love , which grows slow and leisurely , is too like friendship ever to be a violent passion . — Ib . 602 . As sure as we are in love , we pardon ...
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... perfect vice come at last to show themselves . - Ib . 672 . One sign of mediocrity of sense is to be always telling stories . * — 1b . 673 . The able man is one who hides his passions , understands his interest , sacrifices many things ...
... perfect vice come at last to show themselves . - Ib . 672 . One sign of mediocrity of sense is to be always telling stories . * — 1b . 673 . The able man is one who hides his passions , understands his interest , sacrifices many things ...
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Página 104 - 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 47 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 75 - tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, . And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 72 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Página 45 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...
Página 47 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 104 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 286 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 260 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Página 13 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.