Lacon: or, Many things in few wordsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 69 - Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say...
Página 191 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Página xii - That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
Página 262 - And why? I was grieved at the wicked : I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity.
Página 91 - Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way ; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Página 188 - IT is with nations as with individuals, those who know, the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
Página 174 - ... way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.
Página 113 - There are two modes of establishing our reputation : to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.— It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanie d by the latter.
Página 128 - DOUBT is the vestibule which all must pass, before they can enter into the temple of wisdom...
Página 90 - In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come ; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past ; in manhood, although we appear, indeed, to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.