World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... never known adversity , is but half acquainted with others , or with himself . Constant success shows us but one side of the world ; for as it surrounds us with friends , who will tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies ...
... never known adversity , is but half acquainted with others , or with himself . Constant success shows us but one side of the world ; for as it surrounds us with friends , who will tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies ...
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... never fails to make us taken notice of , either as wanting sense , or sincerity.— Locke . AFFECTATION , ITS FOLLY . - Men are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have , as for those they affect to have . -Charron . AFFECTATION ...
... never fails to make us taken notice of , either as wanting sense , or sincerity.— Locke . AFFECTATION , ITS FOLLY . - Men are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have , as for those they affect to have . -Charron . AFFECTATION ...
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... never recover our sick - bed views . AFFLICTION , TO BE HEEDED . - If you would not have af- fliction visit you twice , listen at once to what it teaches.— Burgh . AGE , OLD . - Old age is a lease nature only signs by par- ticular favor ...
... never recover our sick - bed views . AFFLICTION , TO BE HEEDED . - If you would not have af- fliction visit you twice , listen at once to what it teaches.— Burgh . AGE , OLD . - Old age is a lease nature only signs by par- ticular favor ...
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... never departs from them whilst they are alive , and they die in an opinion that they have left none wiser behind them , though they have left none behind them who ever had any esteem of their wisdom and judgment.— Clarendon . AGE , OLD ...
... never departs from them whilst they are alive , and they die in an opinion that they have left none wiser behind them , though they have left none behind them who ever had any esteem of their wisdom and judgment.— Clarendon . AGE , OLD ...
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... never reach the top . - Burton . AMBITION , ITS VANITY . - Who would not be covetous , and with reason , if health could be purchased with gold ? who not ambitious , if it were at the command of power , or re- stored by honor ? But alas ...
... never reach the top . - Burton . AMBITION , ITS VANITY . - Who would not be covetous , and with reason , if health could be purchased with gold ? who not ambitious , if it were at the command of power , or re- stored by honor ? But alas ...
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