World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... fortune to a falling column ; the lower it sinks , the greater weight it is obliged to sustain . Thus , when a man has no occasion to borrow , he finds numbers willing to lend him . Should he ask his friend to lend him a hundred pounds ...
... fortune to a falling column ; the lower it sinks , the greater weight it is obliged to sustain . Thus , when a man has no occasion to borrow , he finds numbers willing to lend him . Should he ask his friend to lend him a hundred pounds ...
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... fortune , it makes him easy un- der them .-- Addison . CONTENTMENT ITS EFFECTS .-- There is some help for all the defects of fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by cutting of them ...
... fortune , it makes him easy un- der them .-- Addison . CONTENTMENT ITS EFFECTS .-- There is some help for all the defects of fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by cutting of them ...
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... fortunes are at the lowest , our wits and minds are commonly at the best . - Charron . COURAGE AND CONSCIENCE . - True courage never exerts itself so much as when it is most pressed ; and it is then we most enjoy the feast of a good ...
... fortunes are at the lowest , our wits and minds are commonly at the best . - Charron . COURAGE AND CONSCIENCE . - True courage never exerts itself so much as when it is most pressed ; and it is then we most enjoy the feast of a good ...
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... fortune , we shall lose the pleasure of it when it arrives , and may possibly never possess what we have so foolishly counted on.- . -Addison . DESPAIR .-- Despair is like froward children , who , when you take away one of their ...
... fortune , we shall lose the pleasure of it when it arrives , and may possibly never possess what we have so foolishly counted on.- . -Addison . DESPAIR .-- Despair is like froward children , who , when you take away one of their ...
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... fortune insolent . - Johnson . DEVOTION IN THE YOUNG . - It is of the utmost importance to season the passions of the young with devotion , which scl- dom dies in the mind that has received an early tincture of it . Though it may seem ...
... fortune insolent . - Johnson . DEVOTION IN THE YOUNG . - It is of the utmost importance to season the passions of the young with devotion , which scl- dom dies in the mind that has received an early tincture of it . Though it may seem ...
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