World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... conscience , are rath- er to be led than driven ; and it is to be feared that they who marry where they do not love , will love where they do not marry . - Fuller . AFFLICTION . — Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity ...
... conscience , are rath- er to be led than driven ; and it is to be feared that they who marry where they do not love , will love where they do not marry . - Fuller . AFFLICTION . — Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity ...
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... consciences of other men , but because they happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own 2 THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 25 rious gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding to ...
... consciences of other men , but because they happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own 2 THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 25 rious gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding to ...
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Tryon Edwards. happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own . — Cul ton . BELIEF OF THE SKEPTIC.- -A skeptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr , observed , that he would believe nothing which he could ...
Tryon Edwards. happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own . — Cul ton . BELIEF OF THE SKEPTIC.- -A skeptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr , observed , that he would believe nothing which he could ...
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... conscience , the best law honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . ; BIBLE . It is the light of my understanding , the joy of my heart , the fulness of my hope , the clarifier of my affec- tions , the mirror of my ...
... conscience , the best law honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . ; BIBLE . It is the light of my understanding , the joy of my heart , the fulness of my hope , the clarifier of my affec- tions , the mirror of my ...
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... conscience of him that is chancellor , and as that is larger or narrower , so is equity . ' Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure , we call a chancellor's foot - what an uncertain measure this would be ...
... conscience of him that is chancellor , and as that is larger or narrower , so is equity . ' Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure , we call a chancellor's foot - what an uncertain measure this would be ...
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