World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... . - Fuller . AFFLICTION . - Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity , and interrupts the confidence of sinning . - Atterbury , AFFLICTION , HOW TO BE RECEIVED.- -We should feel sor- THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 15.
... . - Fuller . AFFLICTION . - Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity , and interrupts the confidence of sinning . - Atterbury , AFFLICTION , HOW TO BE RECEIVED.- -We should feel sor- THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 15.
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... feel sor- row , but not sink under its oppression ; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object without being sullied by any . - Confucius . AFFLICTION , ITS EFFECT . As threshing seperates the wheat ...
... feel sor- row , but not sink under its oppression ; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object without being sullied by any . - Confucius . AFFLICTION , ITS EFFECT . As threshing seperates the wheat ...
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... feel- ings produce , and the most extensive knowledge cannot al- ways remove . — Mackenzie . BEAUTY . - Socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny ; Plato , a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus , a silent cheat ; Theocritus , a ...
... feel- ings produce , and the most extensive knowledge cannot al- ways remove . — Mackenzie . BEAUTY . - Socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny ; Plato , a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus , a silent cheat ; Theocritus , a ...
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... feeling for the welfare of the whole . — Cumberland . CHARITY , DEFINITION OF.Mahomet's definition of charity , says Irving , in his life of the prophet , embraced the wide circle of all possible kindness . Every good act , he would say ...
... feeling for the welfare of the whole . — Cumberland . CHARITY , DEFINITION OF.Mahomet's definition of charity , says Irving , in his life of the prophet , embraced the wide circle of all possible kindness . Every good act , he would say ...
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... feel their sufferings and taste their enjoyments as much as if they were their own . - Palm- er's Aphorisms . CHILDREN AND PARENTS .- " Let all children remember , " says Dr. Dwight , " if ever they are weary of laboring for their ...
... feel their sufferings and taste their enjoyments as much as if they were their own . - Palm- er's Aphorisms . CHILDREN AND PARENTS .- " Let all children remember , " says Dr. Dwight , " if ever they are weary of laboring for their ...
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