Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... death - bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon . - Sterne . VI . There is some help for all the defects of fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by ...
... death - bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon . - Sterne . VI . There is some help for all the defects of fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by ...
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... life , life is gone ; and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the philosopher . - Hume . XXVI . Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging B 3 LACONICS . 5 XXI. ...
... life , life is gone ; and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the philosopher . - Hume . XXVI . Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging B 3 LACONICS . 5 XXI. ...
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... death of its body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best and the worst , there are , you say , innumerable ...
... death of its body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best and the worst , there are , you say , innumerable ...
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... gold , Esteem and love were never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would in- deed be a most mortifying evil . — Bruyere . CIV . Every man is rich or poor , according 22 LACONICS . XCIX. ...
... gold , Esteem and love were never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would in- deed be a most mortifying evil . — Bruyere . CIV . Every man is rich or poor , according 22 LACONICS . XCIX. ...
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... death , and in a manner dig- ging his own grave . — Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX ...
... death , and in a manner dig- ging his own grave . — Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX ...
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