World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... conscience , are rath- er to be led than driven ; and it is to be feared that they who marry where they do not love , will love where they do not marry . - Fuller . AFFLICTION . - Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity ...
... conscience , are rath- er to be led than driven ; and it is to be feared that they who marry where they do not love , will love where they do not marry . - Fuller . AFFLICTION . - Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity ...
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... consciences of other men , but because they happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own 2 THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 25 rious gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding to ...
... consciences of other men , but because they happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own 2 THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 25 rious gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding to ...
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... conscience of their own . - Col ton . BELIEF OF THE SKEPTIC . - A skeptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr , observed , that he would believe nothing which he could not understand . Then , young man , your ...
... conscience of their own . - Col ton . BELIEF OF THE SKEPTIC . - A skeptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr , observed , that he would believe nothing which he could not understand . Then , young man , your ...
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... conscience , the best law ; honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . BIBLE . It is the light of my understanding , the joy of my heart , the fulness of my hope , the clarifier of my affec- tions , the mirror of my ...
... conscience , the best law ; honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . BIBLE . It is the light of my understanding , the joy of my heart , the fulness of my hope , the clarifier of my affec- tions , the mirror of my ...
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... conscience of him that is chancellor , and as that is larger or narrower , so is equity . ' Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure , we call a chancellor's foot - what an uncertain measure this would be ...
... conscience of him that is chancellor , and as that is larger or narrower , so is equity . ' Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure , we call a chancellor's foot - what an uncertain measure this would be ...
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