LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Page 10
... lights , So human foibles show the human heart . - Poetry . Nature the only perfect artist is : Who studies nature may approach her skill ; Perfection hers , but never can be his , Though her sweet voice his very marrow thrill : The ...
... lights , So human foibles show the human heart . - Poetry . Nature the only perfect artist is : Who studies nature may approach her skill ; Perfection hers , but never can be his , Though her sweet voice his very marrow thrill : The ...
Page 47
... happy change From night to light - on angel wings to range , And sing the songs of seraphs as we go ? Alas , the more we know the less we know we know . The Reign of Reason . Matter to matter , mind to mind returns . " LACONICS 47.
... happy change From night to light - on angel wings to range , And sing the songs of seraphs as we go ? Alas , the more we know the less we know we know . The Reign of Reason . Matter to matter , mind to mind returns . " LACONICS 47.
Page 71
... lights . of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed . Coleridge . Experience is the true wisdom of nations . -Napoleon . Experience keeps a dear shop , but fools will learn in no other . - Franklin . I had rather have a fool ...
... lights . of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed . Coleridge . Experience is the true wisdom of nations . -Napoleon . Experience keeps a dear shop , but fools will learn in no other . - Franklin . I had rather have a fool ...
Page 72
... light the way to others . An ounce of fact is worth a ton of fiction . We mold facts in our own molds . A new fact is a new revelation . Every fact fits in with all other facts . Facts are tools for the wise . Facts ! facts ! we are all ...
... light the way to others . An ounce of fact is worth a ton of fiction . We mold facts in our own molds . A new fact is a new revelation . Every fact fits in with all other facts . Facts are tools for the wise . Facts ! facts ! we are all ...
Page 76
... faultless men or faultless art ; Small faults are ever virtue's parasites ; As in a picture shadows show the lights , So human foibles show the human heart . -Poetry . If we had no faults we wouldn't be hunting for 76 LACONICS.
... faultless men or faultless art ; Small faults are ever virtue's parasites ; As in a picture shadows show the lights , So human foibles show the human heart . -Poetry . If we had no faults we wouldn't be hunting for 76 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.