World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... give as much as we conveniently can .-- Selden . ADVERSITY , ITS BENEFITS . - A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner , neither do uninterrupted prosperity and suc- cess qualify for usefulness and happiness . The storms of adversity ...
... give as much as we conveniently can .-- Selden . ADVERSITY , ITS BENEFITS . - A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner , neither do uninterrupted prosperity and suc- cess qualify for usefulness and happiness . The storms of adversity ...
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... gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and example , builds with both ; but he that gives good admonition and bad example , builds with one hand and pulls down with the other . - Bacon . ADVICE , EASILY ...
... gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and example , builds with both ; but he that gives good admonition and bad example , builds with one hand and pulls down with the other . - Bacon . ADVICE , EASILY ...
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... give our- selves up to it , and blindly follow their determination , right or wrong . - Charron . AFFECTATION . - Affectation in any part of our carriage , is lighting up a candle to our defects , and never fails to make us taken notice ...
... give our- selves up to it , and blindly follow their determination , right or wrong . - Charron . AFFECTATION . - Affectation in any part of our carriage , is lighting up a candle to our defects , and never fails to make us taken notice ...
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... give it up as unattain- able.- Chesterfield . ALLEGORIES - Allegories , when well chosen , are like so many tracks of light in a discourse , that make everything about them clear and beautiful . — Addison . AMBITION , FELT BY ALL ...
... give it up as unattain- able.- Chesterfield . ALLEGORIES - Allegories , when well chosen , are like so many tracks of light in a discourse , that make everything about them clear and beautiful . — Addison . AMBITION , FELT BY ALL ...
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... give . To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.- Seneca . BENEVOLENCE , EARLY . - I had rather never receive a kind- ness , than never bestow one : not to return a benefit is the greater sin , but not to ...
... give . To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.- Seneca . BENEVOLENCE , EARLY . - I had rather never receive a kind- ness , than never bestow one : not to return a benefit is the greater sin , but not to ...
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