A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and ModernF. B. Dickerson Company, 1908 - 644 pagina's |
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Pagina ii
... rich field for selection has also been found in such valuable collections as " Lacon , " " Laconia , " " The Laconic Manual , " " Burning Words of Brilliant Writers , " " Many Thoughts of Many Minds , " " Classical and Foreign ...
... rich field for selection has also been found in such valuable collections as " Lacon , " " Laconia , " " The Laconic Manual , " " Burning Words of Brilliant Writers , " " Many Thoughts of Many Minds , " " Classical and Foreign ...
Pagina 8
... rich . - Lavater . Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small - pox . - St . Evremond . All affectation proceeds from the supposi- tion of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses . Nobody is vain ...
... rich . - Lavater . Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small - pox . - St . Evremond . All affectation proceeds from the supposi- tion of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses . Nobody is vain ...
Pagina 26
... rich and powerful Houses of Commons .--- Pull them down , and it still survives in the master and foreman of the workshop.- Guizot . for charity , and therefore they will part with nothing. Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry ...
... rich and powerful Houses of Commons .--- Pull them down , and it still survives in the master and foreman of the workshop.- Guizot . for charity , and therefore they will part with nothing. Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry ...
Pagina 27
... rich . But let the poor man become rich and he runs at once into the vice against which he so feelingly declaimed . - There are strange contradictions in human char- acter . Cumberland . The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of ...
... rich . But let the poor man become rich and he runs at once into the vice against which he so feelingly declaimed . - There are strange contradictions in human char- acter . Cumberland . The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of ...
Pagina 38
... Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess , and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it . - They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are ...
... Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess , and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it . - They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are ...
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action atheism beauty believe better blessing Chapin character Chesterfield Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience death divine doth duty earth Eliot enemy eternal evil faith fear feel folly fool genius George Eliot give glory God's Goethe grace greatest H. W. Beecher habit happiness hath heart heaven honor hope human J. G. Holland Jeremy Taylor knowledge labor less liberty light ligion live look man's mankind ment mind moral nature ness never noble opinion ourselves passions person pleasure praise pride Proverb R. D. Hitchcock reason religion rich sense Shakespeare Simmons smile sorrow soul speak spirit teach temper thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion tongue true truth Tryon Edwards vice virtue Voltaire Walter Scott Washington Allston Washington Irving Wendell Phillips wisdom wise words
Populaire passages
Pagina 451 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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.
Pagina 548 - 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.
Pagina 399 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Pagina 274 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Pagina 376 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Pagina 460 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure ; reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Pagina 417 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Pagina 131 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Pagina 460 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Pagina 306 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.