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Hanford Lennox Gordon. PREFACE . For years I have made a practice of keeping notes of such thoughts and laconic expressions as I deemed worth preserving . Out of the mass I have now sifted and arranged the contents of this volume with ...
Hanford Lennox Gordon. PREFACE . For years I have made a practice of keeping notes of such thoughts and laconic expressions as I deemed worth preserving . Out of the mass I have now sifted and arranged the contents of this volume with ...
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... is full of after - thought . Age . That man never grows old who keeps youth in his heart . That man is already too old who has lost confi- dence in himself . Agriculture is the chief foundation of nations . Ahead . 2 LACONICS.
... is full of after - thought . Age . That man never grows old who keeps youth in his heart . That man is already too old who has lost confi- dence in himself . Agriculture is the chief foundation of nations . Ahead . 2 LACONICS.
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... keep . Two brave men pulling together are a four - horse team . Association develops men . It is idle to declaim against great corporations ; civilization , the welfare of the human race , de- mand them ; they have come to stay ...
... keep . Two brave men pulling together are a four - horse team . Association develops men . It is idle to declaim against great corporations ; civilization , the welfare of the human race , de- mand them ; they have come to stay ...
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... keep it yourself . Power is authority . " You have no authority to arrest me , " said a greenhorn to a New York policeman . " I hain't , sor ? -shmell av me stick , " replied the " cop . " How often the ipse dixit of a little judge be ...
... keep it yourself . Power is authority . " You have no authority to arrest me , " said a greenhorn to a New York policeman . " I hain't , sor ? -shmell av me stick , " replied the " cop . " How often the ipse dixit of a little judge be ...
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... keep at it . It is easier to begin than to finish . Better begin at the bottom and work up , than begin at the top and work down . In the beginning a bucket of water will put out a fire and save a whole city . Few men know when to begin ...
... keep at it . It is easier to begin than to finish . Better begin at the bottom and work up , than begin at the top and work down . In the beginning a bucket of water will put out a fire and save a whole city . Few men know when to begin ...
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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.