A Collection of Select Aphorisms and Maxims: With Several Historical Observations: Extracted from the Most Eminent AuthorsE. Cave, 1748 - 322 páginas |
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... mean people , and fo to proportion yourself to the humours and characters of those you converfe with , as to let them think themselves upon a level with you ; nothing can be more pleafing , they are charm'd with you , and them- felves ...
... mean people , and fo to proportion yourself to the humours and characters of those you converfe with , as to let them think themselves upon a level with you ; nothing can be more pleafing , they are charm'd with you , and them- felves ...
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... means ; for I hold not health to be fubordinate to life , but life to health ; being is the means , and well - being is the end . 123. Were men as jealous of God's honour , as they pre- tend to be of their own , they would foon fee the ...
... means ; for I hold not health to be fubordinate to life , but life to health ; being is the means , and well - being is the end . 123. Were men as jealous of God's honour , as they pre- tend to be of their own , they would foon fee the ...
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... means fomething of floth , as well as moderation . 162. No trees bear fruit in autumn , unless they blof- fom in the fpring . To the end that my age may be pro- fitable and laden with ripe fruit , I will endeavour that my youth may be ...
... means fomething of floth , as well as moderation . 162. No trees bear fruit in autumn , unless they blof- fom in the fpring . To the end that my age may be pro- fitable and laden with ripe fruit , I will endeavour that my youth may be ...
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... means to lie out of the reach of obfervation and jealoufy . 227. Never affent meerly to please , for that betrays a fervile mind ; nor contradict to vex , for that argues an ill temper and ill - breeding . 228. Old age is the haven of ...
... means to lie out of the reach of obfervation and jealoufy . 227. Never affent meerly to please , for that betrays a fervile mind ; nor contradict to vex , for that argues an ill temper and ill - breeding . 228. Old age is the haven of ...
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... the end propofed . 249. There are but two means in the world of gaining by other men , men , that is , by being either agreeable or useful .. 250. Storms 250. Storms and tempefts give reputation to pilots . Our APHORISMS and MAXIMS . 39.
... the end propofed . 249. There are but two means in the world of gaining by other men , men , that is , by being either agreeable or useful .. 250. Storms 250. Storms and tempefts give reputation to pilots . Our APHORISMS and MAXIMS . 39.
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Página 320 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Página 27 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
Página 192 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence?
Página 310 - Earth in the following manner. ' For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns.
Página 153 - IT is of the last importance to season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the cares of the world, the heats of youth, or the allurements of vice, it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion, consideration, age, or misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and overlaid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered.
Página 27 - ... and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection, which are to make us happy in the next. The seeds of those spiritual joys and raptures, which are to rise up and flourish in the soul to all eternity, must be planted in her during this her present state of probation. In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect of a religious life.
Página 208 - In fine, the defect in naturals seems to proceed from want of quickness, activity, and motion in the intellectual faculties, whereby they are deprived of reason; whereas madmen, on the other side, seem to suffer by the other extreme : for they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Página 192 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 209 - I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any...
Página 84 - I must also observe with Longinus, that the productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author, which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.