LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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... winds of adversity blow egotism out of us . Adversity winnows out the chess and the chaff ; the wheat remains . In adversity - calm ; in prosperity - calm . They that sow in adversity may reap in pros- perity . The courage of the brave ...
... winds of adversity blow egotism out of us . Adversity winnows out the chess and the chaff ; the wheat remains . In adversity - calm ; in prosperity - calm . They that sow in adversity may reap in pros- perity . The courage of the brave ...
Page 13
... wind with his sword . Don't turn your back on the truth and always face a lie . Back - biters . Back - biters bite themselves . Backbone . Backbone is the best bone in your body . Backward . Don't be backward in coming forward in your ...
... wind with his sword . Don't turn your back on the truth and always face a lie . Back - biters . Back - biters bite themselves . Backbone . Backbone is the best bone in your body . Backward . Don't be backward in coming forward in your ...
Page 36
... wind blowing cold coals . Coat . Have your coat cut according to your pants . If your tongue is sour coat it with honey . Look out for vice in a swallow - tail coat . He wore a swaller - tail coat an ' tew patches under it . - Bronco ...
... wind blowing cold coals . Coat . Have your coat cut according to your pants . If your tongue is sour coat it with honey . Look out for vice in a swallow - tail coat . He wore a swaller - tail coat an ' tew patches under it . - Bronco ...
Page 51
... wind and weather - cock the crowd ; With brazen faces full of empty noise Out - bellowing the bulls of Bashan . — Men . Demand . Yield to the demand of your own con- science . He demands double pay for being honest . Every hour makes a ...
... wind and weather - cock the crowd ; With brazen faces full of empty noise Out - bellowing the bulls of Bashan . — Men . Demand . Yield to the demand of your own con- science . He demands double pay for being honest . Every hour makes a ...
Page 74
... wind away . -Shakespeare . Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds . — Socrates . Fame is as fickle as the babble of men . Fame is but the breath of the populace , and often smells of garlic . He was famous - immortal for a day . There 74 ...
... wind away . -Shakespeare . Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds . — Socrates . Fame is as fickle as the babble of men . Fame is but the breath of the populace , and often smells of garlic . He was famous - immortal for a day . There 74 ...
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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.