Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... fall out like rogues in the street , to pick somebody's pocket . They never agree but , like Herod and Pilate , to do mischief . His conscience never stands in his light , when the devil holds a candle to him ; for he has stretched it ...
... fall out like rogues in the street , to pick somebody's pocket . They never agree but , like Herod and Pilate , to do mischief . His conscience never stands in his light , when the devil holds a candle to him ; for he has stretched it ...
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... falling , but rising every time we fall . - Confucius . XXIV . The estimate and valour of a man consist in the heart and in the will ; there his true honour lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and the ...
... falling , but rising every time we fall . - Confucius . XXIV . The estimate and valour of a man consist in the heart and in the will ; there his true honour lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and the ...
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... fall , or if seen , never pitied . LVII . Massinger . Friendship is the only thing in the world , concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed . - Cicero . LVIII . The historian may make himself wise , by living as many ...
... fall , or if seen , never pitied . LVII . Massinger . Friendship is the only thing in the world , concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed . - Cicero . LVIII . The historian may make himself wise , by living as many ...
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... falls on their mast , it portends ill luck ; but if two come together , ( which they count Castor and Pollux ) they presage good success . But sure in a family it bodeth most bad , when two fire - balls ( hus- band and wife's anger ) ...
... falls on their mast , it portends ill luck ; but if two come together , ( which they count Castor and Pollux ) they presage good success . But sure in a family it bodeth most bad , when two fire - balls ( hus- band and wife's anger ) ...
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... fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles , their quartiles and op positions . — Burton . LXXX . Judgment is but a curious pair of scales , That turns with th ' hundredth part of true or false , And still the more ' t is us'd ...
... fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles , their quartiles and op positions . — Burton . LXXX . Judgment is but a curious pair of scales , That turns with th ' hundredth part of true or false , And still the more ' t is us'd ...
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