World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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Page 33
... tongues of others , but a good life enables us to despise them . " CANT . When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason , when his imagination is at cuffs with his senses , and com- mon understanding , as well as common sense , is ...
... tongues of others , but a good life enables us to despise them . " CANT . When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason , when his imagination is at cuffs with his senses , and com- mon understanding , as well as common sense , is ...
Page 88
... tongues of men . - Sterne . EVIL - SPEAKING.- -It is safer to affront some people than to oblige them for the better a man deserves , the worse they will speak of him ; as if the possessing of open hatred to their benefactors , were an ...
... tongues of men . - Sterne . EVIL - SPEAKING.- -It is safer to affront some people than to oblige them for the better a man deserves , the worse they will speak of him ; as if the possessing of open hatred to their benefactors , were an ...
Page 128
... tongues to talk of it , more eyes to behold it , but few hearts that rightly affect it.- Bishop Hall . HEAVEN . To that state all the pious on earth are tend- ing . Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature ; is ...
... tongues to talk of it , more eyes to behold it , but few hearts that rightly affect it.- Bishop Hall . HEAVEN . To that state all the pious on earth are tend- ing . Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature ; is ...
Page 140
... it is the gift of tongues , and makes a man understood and valued in all coun- tries , and by all nations ; it is the philosopher's stone , that turns all metals , and even stones , into gold 140 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... it is the gift of tongues , and makes a man understood and valued in all coun- tries , and by all nations ; it is the philosopher's stone , that turns all metals , and even stones , into gold 140 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
Page 149
... tongue . Roger Ascham . LAUGHTER . It is a good thing to laugh , at any rate : aud if a straw can tickle a man , it is an instrument of happiness . Beasts can weep when they suffer , but they cannot laugh.— Dryden . LAUGHTER ...
... tongue . Roger Ascham . LAUGHTER . It is a good thing to laugh , at any rate : aud if a straw can tickle a man , it is an instrument of happiness . Beasts can weep when they suffer , but they cannot laugh.— Dryden . LAUGHTER ...
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