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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... give to life its strength , as only moderation gives it its charm.- Richter . Every noble activity makes room for itself . Emerson . Mark this well , ye proud men of action ! ye are , after all , nothing but unconscious instruments of ...
... give to life its strength , as only moderation gives it its charm.- Richter . Every noble activity makes room for itself . Emerson . Mark this well , ye proud men of action ! ye are , after all , nothing but unconscious instruments of ...
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... gives them . - Bovee . Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes . He has not the trouble of earning to own them : they solicit him to enter and possess . - Emerson . The ...
... gives them . - Bovee . Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes . He has not the trouble of earning to own them : they solicit him to enter and possess . - Emerson . The ...
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... give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength , and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day , and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life . - Addison . How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in ...
... give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength , and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day , and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life . - Addison . How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in ...
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... give advice to the afflicted . - Eschylus . The worst men often give the best advice ; our thoughts are better sometimes than our deeds . - Bailey . We ask advice ; we mean approbation.- Colton . Advice is like snow ; the softer it ...
... give advice to the afflicted . - Eschylus . The worst men often give the best advice ; our thoughts are better sometimes than our deeds . - Bailey . We ask advice ; we mean approbation.- Colton . Advice is like snow ; the softer it ...
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... Give me no anec doter of an author , but give me his works " ; and yet I have often found that the anec- dotes are more interesting than the works.― Disraeli . Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth , and if striking and ...
... Give me no anec doter of an author , but give me his works " ; and yet I have often found that the anec- dotes are more interesting than the works.― Disraeli . Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth , and if striking and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
action atheism beauty become believe better blessing body Chapin character Chesterfield Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience death divine doth duty earth Eliot enemy eternal evil eyes faith fear feel folly fool genius George Eliot give God's Goethe grace greatest grow habit happiness hath heart heaven honor hope human J. G. Holland Jeremy Taylor knowledge labor less liberty light live look man's mankind ment mind moral nature ness never noble opinion ourselves passions person Plato pleasure praise pride R. D. Hitchcock reason religion rich sense Shakespeare Simmons smile sorrow soul speak spirit teach tears temper thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion tongue true truth Tryon Edwards vice Victor Hugo virtue Voltaire Walter Scott Washington Allston Washington Irving Wendell Phillips wisdom wise words
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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.