LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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... virtues of our ancestors are good , but vir- tues of our own are better . Our ancestors were fine fellows , but they fought like Kilkenny cats . He is more deserving than any of his ancestors , and most of them were hanged . Here is a ...
... virtues of our ancestors are good , but vir- tues of our own are better . Our ancestors were fine fellows , but they fought like Kilkenny cats . He is more deserving than any of his ancestors , and most of them were hanged . Here is a ...
Page 9
... virtue be your helmet and your shield , And Truth your weapon - weapon sharp and strong , And deadly to all error and all wrong . Armed , cap - a - piè , with God's almighty truth . Arms . In America a coat - of - arms counts less than ...
... virtue be your helmet and your shield , And Truth your weapon - weapon sharp and strong , And deadly to all error and all wrong . Armed , cap - a - piè , with God's almighty truth . Arms . In America a coat - of - arms counts less than ...
Page 10
... virtue's parasites ; As in a picture shadows show 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 ...
... virtue's parasites ; As in a picture shadows show 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 ...
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... is Truth . Beauty without virtue is a rose with a bad smell . Beauty a beautiful soul in a beautiful body . What good is beauty to the blind ? Beer . The more beer the less bread . Before . Look before or you will fall behind . 14 LACONICS.
... is Truth . Beauty without virtue is a rose with a bad smell . Beauty a beautiful soul in a beautiful body . What good is beauty to the blind ? Beer . The more beer the less bread . Before . Look before or you will fall behind . 14 LACONICS.
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... virtue are the gems , good breeding the setting . She would breed a fever in the blood of a fish . We are all of the same breed - our forefathers were gorillas . Bridge . Make a bridge for your adversary to re- treat over . It is a safe ...
... virtue are the gems , good breeding the setting . She would breed a fever in the blood of a fish . We are all of the same breed - our forefathers were gorillas . Bridge . Make a bridge for your adversary to re- treat over . It is a safe ...
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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.