LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Hanford Lennox Gordon. Agriculture is the chief foundation of nations . Ahead . Hope , ahead ; regret , behind . Look ahead or you will fall behind . -Napoleon . Put your face to the front , and go ahead . Aim . Take aim or you will ...
Hanford Lennox Gordon. Agriculture is the chief foundation of nations . Ahead . Hope , ahead ; regret , behind . Look ahead or you will fall behind . -Napoleon . Put your face to the front , and go ahead . Aim . Take aim or you will ...
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... hope to escape their shadows . -Froude . Man is not the creature of circumstances , Circumstances are the creatures of men . -Disraeli . Man is a creature of a thousand whims , The slave of hope and fear and circumstance . " I'm broke ...
... hope to escape their shadows . -Froude . Man is not the creature of circumstances , Circumstances are the creatures of men . -Disraeli . Man is a creature of a thousand whims , The slave of hope and fear and circumstance . " I'm broke ...
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... Oliver Cromwell ( to his soldiers on crossing a river . ) All things in nature bear God's signature So plainly writ that he who runs may read . - Men . God's perfect order rules the Universe . Hope and Trust LACONICS 93.
... Oliver Cromwell ( to his soldiers on crossing a river . ) All things in nature bear God's signature So plainly writ that he who runs may read . - Men . God's perfect order rules the Universe . Hope and Trust LACONICS 93.
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... Hope and Trust . -Dust to Dust . Lo all pervading Unity is His ; Lo all pervading Unity is He ; One mighty heart throbs in the earth and sea , In every star through heaven's immensity ; And God in all things breathes , in all things is ...
... Hope and Trust . -Dust to Dust . Lo all pervading Unity is His ; Lo all pervading Unity is He ; One mighty heart throbs in the earth and sea , In every star through heaven's immensity ; And God in all things breathes , in all things is ...
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... honor yourself . Guard your honor as you guard your life . Honor cannot long outlive honesty . But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels . - Tennyson . Hope . Lose hope , lose all . Hope : 106 LACONICS.
... honor yourself . Guard your honor as you guard your life . Honor cannot long outlive honesty . But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels . - Tennyson . Hope . Lose hope , lose all . Hope : 106 LACONICS.
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Popular passages
Page 203 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 34 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Page 115 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 100 - To render happy : all who joy would win Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.
Page 258 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 244 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 119 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 175 - tis public folly feeds. The slaves of custom and establish'd mode, With packhorse constancy we keep the road, Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think...
Page 137 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.