World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... envy that would detract from others . - T . Edwards . CENSURE . Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent . - Swift . - CENSURE AND ADMONITION . -To arrive at perfection , a man should have very sincere friends , or ...
... envy that would detract from others . - T . Edwards . CENSURE . Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent . - Swift . - CENSURE AND ADMONITION . -To arrive at perfection , a man should have very sincere friends , or ...
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... universally com- mended than a fine day ; the reason is , that people can com mend it without envy . - Shenstone . DEATH . - Death is like thunder in two particulars : we are alarmed at the sound of it ; and it is 60 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... universally com- mended than a fine day ; the reason is , that people can com mend it without envy . - Shenstone . DEATH . - Death is like thunder in two particulars : we are alarmed at the sound of it ; and it is 60 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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... take away the bitterness and sting of death , through Jesus Christ our Lord . - Sir M. Hale . DEATH , ITS EFFECT . - Death opens the gate of fame , and shuts the gate of envy after it ; it unlooses THE WORLD S LACONICS . 61.
... take away the bitterness and sting of death , through Jesus Christ our Lord . - Sir M. Hale . DEATH , ITS EFFECT . - Death opens the gate of fame , and shuts the gate of envy after it ; it unlooses THE WORLD S LACONICS . 61.
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Tryon Edwards. shuts the gate of envy after it ; it unlooses the chain of the captive , and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hands . Sterne . DEATH OF OLD AND YOUNG.— -One of the fathers saith , " There is but this difference ...
Tryon Edwards. shuts the gate of envy after it ; it unlooses the chain of the captive , and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hands . Sterne . DEATH OF OLD AND YOUNG.— -One of the fathers saith , " There is but this difference ...
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... Envy's memory is nothing but a row of hooks to hang up grudges on . Some people's sensibil- ity is a mere bundle of aversions ; and you hear them dis- play and parade it , not in recounting the things they are at- tached to , but in ...
... Envy's memory is nothing but a row of hooks to hang up grudges on . Some people's sensibil- ity is a mere bundle of aversions ; and you hear them dis- play and parade it , not in recounting the things they are at- tached to , but in ...
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