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We enter upon life without goodness , without knowlege , and without the active
power of thinking . Those excellencies must be obtained by our own endeavors ,
in the use of certain means . Goodness is the gift of God , to those who ask him ...
We enter upon life without goodness , without knowlege , and without the active
power of thinking . Those excellencies must be obtained by our own endeavors ,
in the use of certain means . Goodness is the gift of God , to those who ask him ...
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We grant , it does not always happen that men are induced to give up their
opinions , or even to think them wrong , on observing facts which do not agree
with them ; but surely it is the best means of producing this effect ; and whatever
change ...
We grant , it does not always happen that men are induced to give up their
opinions , or even to think them wrong , on observing facts which do not agree
with them ; but surely it is the best means of producing this effect ; and whatever
change ...
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You will find them the best means you can practise for learning the power of
thinking calmly during difficulties ; and he who has learned to think and to speak
calmly in the midst of external pressure , is already far on his way to success in
life .
You will find them the best means you can practise for learning the power of
thinking calmly during difficulties ; and he who has learned to think and to speak
calmly in the midst of external pressure , is already far on his way to success in
life .
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The advantage of announcing them , the advantage of threats , is this :threats
occasion terror , and terror is the great means , and the greatest means , of
bringing about execution . — DUKE OF WELLINGTON , Speech in Parliament ,
26 July ...
The advantage of announcing them , the advantage of threats , is this :threats
occasion terror , and terror is the great means , and the greatest means , of
bringing about execution . — DUKE OF WELLINGTON , Speech in Parliament ,
26 July ...
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... necessary in the race which they have to run . The means are nevertheless
given , if they will use them , of turning the events of their course ( whatever it may
bè , ) to the ultimate attainment of the object of all earthly pursuits , the favor ...
... necessary in the race which they have to run . The means are nevertheless
given , if they will use them , of turning the events of their course ( whatever it may
bè , ) to the ultimate attainment of the object of all earthly pursuits , the favor ...
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Page 169 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 133 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 96 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd, comrade.
Page 97 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 97 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 105 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 192 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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| Title | Extracts from various authors; and fragments of table-talk [ed. by E.L. Hussey]. |
| Author | Extracts |
| Editor | Edward Law Hussey |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | E. Pickard Hall and J.H. Stacy, printers to the University, 1883 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 31 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 217 pages |
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