World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... pass along , in the bright fields that genius has opened before us , we now and then pause at some point of unusual splendor , and cannot proceed till we have stopped , inwardly to digest some rare offering of a lofty mind to our ...
... pass along , in the bright fields that genius has opened before us , we now and then pause at some point of unusual splendor , and cannot proceed till we have stopped , inwardly to digest some rare offering of a lofty mind to our ...
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... pass to boot , to carry him through all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career . - Montaigne . AGE , OLD , AND YOUTH . - When we are young , we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something ...
... pass to boot , to carry him through all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career . - Montaigne . AGE , OLD , AND YOUTH . - When we are young , we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something ...
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... pass : and without doubt , of all pas- sions which naturally disturb the mind of man , it is most in our power to extinguish , at least to suppress and correct , our anger . - Clarendon . ANGER INJURES ITSELF . - Anger is like rain ; it ...
... pass : and without doubt , of all pas- sions which naturally disturb the mind of man , it is most in our power to extinguish , at least to suppress and correct , our anger . - Clarendon . ANGER INJURES ITSELF . - Anger is like rain ; it ...
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... passes by as an accident ; and the other , in his fashion , he acknowledges as a kindness : but offer to strike at him , and though you do him no hurt at all , he flies yet in the face of you , even for the mischief that you barely ...
... passes by as an accident ; and the other , in his fashion , he acknowledges as a kindness : but offer to strike at him , and though you do him no hurt at all , he flies yet in the face of you , even for the mischief that you barely ...
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... passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards , with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different ...
... passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards , with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different ...
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