World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... wise provision of Providence , that it is only thoughts that are really worth preserving , that even the press has the power to embalm : -the rest , however they may sport their little hour , are quickly numbered with the things that ...
... wise provision of Providence , that it is only thoughts that are really worth preserving , that even the press has the power to embalm : -the rest , however they may sport their little hour , are quickly numbered with the things that ...
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... wise and in- dustrious , puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill , awes the opulent , and makes the idle industrious . ADVERSITY , ITS SUFFERING . — Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column ; the ...
... wise and in- dustrious , puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill , awes the opulent , and makes the idle industrious . ADVERSITY , ITS SUFFERING . — Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column ; the ...
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... wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object without being sullied by any . - Confucius . AFFLICTION , ITS EFFECT . As threshing seperates the wheat from the chaff , so does affliction purify virtue . - Burton ...
... wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object without being sullied by any . - Confucius . AFFLICTION , ITS EFFECT . As threshing seperates the wheat from the chaff , so does affliction purify virtue . - Burton ...
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Tryon Edwards. SOT wise bject heat great than , like bur- ecord may cum e af es.- par E two -him ed in slav . live , we sists and life ous ; and the old expect a reverence and submission to their white hairs , which they cannot challenge ...
Tryon Edwards. SOT wise bject heat great than , like bur- ecord may cum e af es.- par E two -him ed in slav . live , we sists and life ous ; and the old expect a reverence and submission to their white hairs , which they cannot challenge ...
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... wise men shall be wise ; but a companion of fools shall be de stroyed . Solomon . ASSOCIATION OF THE GOOD.- -When bad men combine , the good must associate ; else they will fall , one by one , an un- pitied sacrifice in a contemptible ...
... wise men shall be wise ; but a companion of fools shall be de stroyed . Solomon . ASSOCIATION OF THE GOOD.- -When bad men combine , the good must associate ; else they will fall , one by one , an un- pitied sacrifice in a contemptible ...
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