Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both HemispheresLippincott & Company, 1866 - 564 pages |
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... youth Hath faulty wander'd and irregular , Find pardon on my true submission . Acquaintance . - Seneca . IT is safer to affront some People than to oblige them ; for the better a Man deserves , the worse they will speak of him ...
... youth Hath faulty wander'd and irregular , Find pardon on my true submission . Acquaintance . - Seneca . IT is safer to affront some People than to oblige them ; for the better a Man deserves , the worse they will speak of him ...
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... Youth ; With cadent tears fret channels in her Cheeks ; Turn all her Mother's pains , and benefits , To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel , How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is , To have a thankless child ! Anathema ...
... Youth ; With cadent tears fret channels in her Cheeks ; Turn all her Mother's pains , and benefits , To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel , How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is , To have a thankless child ! Anathema ...
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... youth , we sometimes imagine . To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home , like laborers from the field , at dinner - time , and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner . Authors . — Colton . IT is a ...
... youth , we sometimes imagine . To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home , like laborers from the field , at dinner - time , and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner . Authors . — Colton . IT is a ...
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... Youth , Mounting at times to a transparent glow , As if her Veins ran lightning . Beauty . - Lee . Is she not brighter than a Summer's Morn , When all the Heaven is streak'd with dappled Fires , And fleck'd with Blushes like a rifled ...
... Youth , Mounting at times to a transparent glow , As if her Veins ran lightning . Beauty . - Lee . Is she not brighter than a Summer's Morn , When all the Heaven is streak'd with dappled Fires , And fleck'd with Blushes like a rifled ...
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... Youth : and tell quaint Lies , How honourable Ladies sought my Love , Which I denying they fell sick and died : I could not do with all : -then I will repent , And wish for all that , that I had not kill'd them : And twenty of these ...
... Youth : and tell quaint Lies , How honourable Ladies sought my Love , Which I denying they fell sick and died : I could not do with all : -then I will repent , And wish for all that , that I had not kill'd them : And twenty of these ...
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