LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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... amend men , begin with your- self , and stay with it . If you have wronged yourself , make amends . The Legislature cannot amend or repeal the laws of Nature . Amusements . Innocent amusements are blessings . Amusement is as LACONICS 3.
... amend men , begin with your- self , and stay with it . If you have wronged yourself , make amends . The Legislature cannot amend or repeal the laws of Nature . Amusements . Innocent amusements are blessings . Amusement is as LACONICS 3.
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... law ends anarchy begins . -Men . Republics breed demagogues , thieves , luxury and poverty , and end in anarchy . Anarchy is a cancer on the body politic . Ancestry - ancestors . The further back you trace your ancestors the nearer you ...
... law ends anarchy begins . -Men . Republics breed demagogues , thieves , luxury and poverty , and end in anarchy . Anarchy is a cancer on the body politic . Ancestry - ancestors . The further back you trace your ancestors the nearer you ...
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... laws of nature . Atom . No atom lost and not one atom gained , Though fire to vapor melt the adamant , Or feldspar fall in drops of summer rain . The Universe is made of atoms . The earth is but a grain of sand , An atom in a shoreless ...
... laws of nature . Atom . No atom lost and not one atom gained , Though fire to vapor melt the adamant , Or feldspar fall in drops of summer rain . The Universe is made of atoms . The earth is but a grain of sand , An atom in a shoreless ...
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... laws of Nature : Christianity would save the imbecile , the idiot , the hopelessly insane and the criminal . Nature decrees the survival of the fittest . The doctrines of Jesus cannot repeal or amend the laws of Nature . The ultimate ...
... laws of Nature : Christianity would save the imbecile , the idiot , the hopelessly insane and the criminal . Nature decrees the survival of the fittest . The doctrines of Jesus cannot repeal or amend the laws of Nature . The ultimate ...
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... law . Common sense . mon - sense . Common law is common - sense . The most uncommon thing is com- Wisdom is common - sense . Fill the basement with common - sense , and the upper floors with learning . Communism . Civilization is ...
... law . Common sense . mon - sense . Common law is common - sense . The most uncommon thing is com- Wisdom is common - sense . Fill the basement with common - sense , and the upper floors with learning . Communism . Civilization is ...
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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.