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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... true , wherein my 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 ...
... true , wherein my 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 ...
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... true touchstone of Merit in both ; happy if it does not produce the dishonesty of Meanness in one , and that of Insolence and Pride in the other . Adversity . β Shakspeare . SWEET are the uses of Adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly ...
... true touchstone of Merit in both ; happy if it does not produce the dishonesty of Meanness in one , and that of Insolence and Pride in the other . Adversity . β Shakspeare . SWEET are the uses of Adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly ...
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... true Antiquity , which em- braces the Antiquity of the World , and not that which would refer us back to a period when the World was young . But by whom is this true Antiquity enjoyed ? Not by the Ancients who did live in the infancy ...
... true Antiquity , which em- braces the Antiquity of the World , and not that which would refer us back to a period when the World was young . But by whom is this true Antiquity enjoyed ? Not by the Ancients who did live in the infancy ...
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... true Pride . Assuming . β De Moy . SSUMED Qualities may catch the Affections of some , but onβ must possess Qualities really good , to fix the heart . Associates . β Fuiler . - ASSOCIATE with Men of OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 15.
... true Pride . Assuming . β De Moy . SSUMED Qualities may catch the Affections of some , but onβ must possess Qualities really good , to fix the heart . Associates . β Fuiler . - ASSOCIATE with Men of OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 15.
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... true Beauty is , that it increases on examination , of false , that it lessens . There is something , therefore , in true Beauty that corresponds with right reason , and is not merely the creature of Fancy . 29 - Beauty . - Dryden ...
... true Beauty is , that it increases on examination , of false , that it lessens . There is something , therefore , in true Beauty that corresponds with right reason , and is not merely the creature of Fancy . 29 - Beauty . - Dryden ...
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