World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . — Pope . AGE , OLD , CENSORIOUS . - Age , though it too often consists only in length of days ; in the aged having lived ...
... live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . — Pope . AGE , OLD , CENSORIOUS . - Age , though it too often consists only in length of days ; in the aged having lived ...
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... live , we sists and life ous ; and the old expect a reverence and submission to their white hairs , which they cannot challenge to any rudiments or ex- ample which they have given to virtue ; and superciliously censure all who are ...
... live , we sists and life ous ; and the old expect a reverence and submission to their white hairs , which they cannot challenge to any rudiments or ex- ample which they have given to virtue ; and superciliously censure all who are ...
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... live , and of growing considerable among those with whom they converse . There is a kind of grandeur and respect ... lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those ...
... live , and of growing considerable among those with whom they converse . There is a kind of grandeur and respect ... lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those ...
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... live with honor in the world , is to be in reality what we would appear to be ; and if we observe , we shall find , that all humane vir- tues increase and strengthen themselves , by the practice and experience of them . - Socrates ...
... live with honor in the world , is to be in reality what we would appear to be ; and if we observe , we shall find , that all humane vir- tues increase and strengthen themselves , by the practice and experience of them . - Socrates ...
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... lives worthily of the virtue of his progen- itors . If , as Seneca says , " Virtue is the only nobility , " he is doubly a nobleman who is himself virtuous , and also de- scended from a virtuous ancestry . BLAME OF SELF - Some blame ...
... lives worthily of the virtue of his progen- itors . If , as Seneca says , " Virtue is the only nobility , " he is doubly a nobleman who is himself virtuous , and also de- scended from a virtuous ancestry . BLAME OF SELF - Some blame ...
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