LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Page 34
... fear and circumstance . " I'm broke , pard : I'm the victim uf circum- stances . " " But yer made ' em yerself , Jo . " -Bronco Bill . City . In the city we long for the country ; in the country we pine for the city . The devil is in ...
... fear and circumstance . " I'm broke , pard : I'm the victim uf circum- stances . " " But yer made ' em yerself , Jo . " -Bronco Bill . City . In the city we long for the country ; in the country we pine for the city . The devil is in ...
Page 41
... Fear is a bad counsellor . Don't give counsel to a fool - he knows more than you do . Take good counsel and keep it . Count . Counts don't count in America . Counts are of little account , and most of the barons are barren . When you ...
... Fear is a bad counsellor . Don't give counsel to a fool - he knows more than you do . Take good counsel and keep it . Count . Counts don't count in America . Counts are of little account , and most of the barons are barren . When you ...
Page 43
... . -Men . Crime . Crime begets crime , as good begets good . Fear is the constant shadow of crime . For the same crime one man goes to the gallows , another to a throne . Vice leads to crime , yet we wink at vice LACONICS 43.
... . -Men . Crime . Crime begets crime , as good begets good . Fear is the constant shadow of crime . For the same crime one man goes to the gallows , another to a throne . Vice leads to crime , yet we wink at vice LACONICS 43.
Page 46
... Fear danger afar off ; when it approaches , face it . In dodging one danger don't run into another . In safety beware of danger . When the danger is past the praying is over . Fear doubles the danger . Don't dally with danger . Dark ...
... Fear danger afar off ; when it approaches , face it . In dodging one danger don't run into another . In safety beware of danger . When the danger is past the praying is over . Fear doubles the danger . Don't dally with danger . Dark ...
Page 55
... fear of disgrace , more than the love of virtue , deters men and women from vice . Dishonesty . The apparent success of the dishonest is a temptation to fools . Disparagement . He who disparages himself to oth- ers expects praise ...
... fear of disgrace , more than the love of virtue , deters men and women from vice . Dishonesty . The apparent success of the dishonest is a temptation to fools . Disparagement . He who disparages himself to oth- ers expects praise ...
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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.