World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... human thought ! " You fasten your eye upon a sentence , and it strikes you , at once , as bearing the stamp of undefined greatness . As you hold it to your mind , it takes a more definite and palpable form ; it reveals treasures of ...
... human thought ! " You fasten your eye upon a sentence , and it strikes you , at once , as bearing the stamp of undefined greatness . As you hold it to your mind , it takes a more definite and palpable form ; it reveals treasures of ...
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... civil pageantry , is as vain and little as the things are which we court . - Sir P. Sidney . AMUSEMENT.It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society THE WORLDS LACONICS . 19.
... civil pageantry , is as vain and little as the things are which we court . - Sir P. Sidney . AMUSEMENT.It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society THE WORLDS LACONICS . 19.
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... human affairs , the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way . Every fear and hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs , will ...
... human affairs , the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way . Every fear and hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs , will ...
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... human nature , as to seek happiness by chang- ing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs which he purposes Lo remove . - Johnson . CONTENTMENT MUST BE WITHIN . - Alas ! if ...
... human nature , as to seek happiness by chang- ing anything but his own dispositions , will waste his life in fruitless efforts , and multiply the griefs which he purposes Lo remove . - Johnson . CONTENTMENT MUST BE WITHIN . - Alas ! if ...
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... man's condition , and to dislike our own , is one of the misfortunes of human nature . " Pleased with each other's lot , our own we hate . " - Burton . DISLIKES . - Whatever you dislike in another person , THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 69.
... man's condition , and to dislike our own , is one of the misfortunes of human nature . " Pleased with each other's lot , our own we hate . " - Burton . DISLIKES . - Whatever you dislike in another person , THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 69.
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