LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Page 9
... rich . Ignorance and arrogance are twins . Art - artist . Artless art is the highest art . What cometh from the heart goes to the heart ; What comes from effort only is but tame . Look not for faultless men or faultless art ; Small ...
... rich . Ignorance and arrogance are twins . Art - artist . Artless art is the highest art . What cometh from the heart goes to the heart ; What comes from effort only is but tame . Look not for faultless men or faultless art ; Small ...
Page 38
... rich man often lacks a stomach for it . If you are proud of your acquirements look up to those above you ; if dissatisfied with your lot , look down on those below you . Nature compensates ; she gives every man his due . Complaint ...
... rich man often lacks a stomach for it . If you are proud of your acquirements look up to those above you ; if dissatisfied with your lot , look down on those below you . Nature compensates ; she gives every man his due . Complaint ...
Page 42
... rich , Jo , fer I'd hev tu many cuzzens . - Bronco Bill . Courts of justice . I know a little squint - eyed judge just big enough to wiggle on the bench . How often cross - eyed Justice hits amiss ! The brass - band demagogue advises ...
... rich , Jo , fer I'd hev tu many cuzzens . - Bronco Bill . Courts of justice . I know a little squint - eyed judge just big enough to wiggle on the bench . How often cross - eyed Justice hits amiss ! The brass - band demagogue advises ...
Page 62
... rich man to get a stomach for his food . A good eater , a good worker . Don't eat your own heart - try a hen's gizzard . Don't live to eat , but eat to live . Eccentricity . Eccentricity in dress or manners is vanity or insanity . A ...
... rich man to get a stomach for his food . A good eater , a good worker . Don't eat your own heart - try a hen's gizzard . Don't live to eat , but eat to live . Eccentricity . Eccentricity in dress or manners is vanity or insanity . A ...
Page 104
... rich , he who lives for himself alone is poor indeed . A man can bridle a wild bronco easier than he can bridle himself . He knows much who knows himself . In his eulogy of the dead he endeavored to build a monument for himself . He is ...
... rich , he who lives for himself alone is poor indeed . A man can bridle a wild bronco easier than he can bridle himself . He knows much who knows himself . In his eulogy of the dead he endeavored to build a monument for himself . He is ...
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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.