World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . - Pope . AGE , OLD , CENSORIOUS . - Age , though it too often consists only in length of days ; in the aged having lived ...
... live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . - Pope . AGE , OLD , CENSORIOUS . - Age , though it too often consists only in length of days ; in the aged having lived ...
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... live a more unhap- py creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capa- ble of receiving pleasures , nor sensible of doing them to oth- ers . - Sir W. Temple . AGE , OLD , SHOULD BE VIRTUOUS . -Old age has deformi- ties ...
... live a more unhap- py creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capa- ble of receiving pleasures , nor sensible of doing them to oth- ers . - Sir W. Temple . AGE , OLD , SHOULD BE VIRTUOUS . -Old age has deformi- ties ...
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... live , and of growing considerable among those with whom they converse . There is a kind of grandeur and respect ... lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those ...
... live , and of growing considerable among those with whom they converse . There is a kind of grandeur and respect ... lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those ...
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... live with honor in the world , is to be in reality what we would appear to be ; and if we observe , we shall find , that all humane vir- tues increase and strengthen themselves , by the practice and experience of them . - Socrates ...
... live with honor in the world , is to be in reality what we would appear to be ; and if we observe , we shall find , that all humane vir- tues increase and strengthen themselves , by the practice and experience of them . - Socrates ...
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... lives worthily of the virtue of his progen- itors . If , as Seneca says , " Virtue is the only nobility , " he is doubly a nobleman who is himself virtuous , and also de- scended from a virtuous ancestry . BLAME OF SELF . - Some blame ...
... lives worthily of the virtue of his progen- itors . If , as Seneca says , " Virtue is the only nobility , " he is doubly a nobleman who is himself virtuous , and also de- scended from a virtuous ancestry . BLAME OF SELF . - Some blame ...
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