Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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Page 19
... Less prone t'excess than avarice ; It neither cares for food nor clothing : Nature's content with little , that with nothing . LXXI . Butler . Dissipation is absolutely a labour when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made ; but ...
... Less prone t'excess than avarice ; It neither cares for food nor clothing : Nature's content with little , that with nothing . LXXI . Butler . Dissipation is absolutely a labour when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made ; but ...
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... less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones . Life has been compared to a race , but the allusion still improves , by observing , that the most swift are ever the least manageable . Το know one profession only is enough for ...
... less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones . Life has been compared to a race , but the allusion still improves , by observing , that the most swift are ever the least manageable . Το know one profession only is enough for ...
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... less artificial ; And therefore students , in their ways of judging , Are fain to swallow many a senseless gudgeon , And by their over - understanding lose Its active faculty with too much use ; For reason , when too curiously ' t is ...
... less artificial ; And therefore students , in their ways of judging , Are fain to swallow many a senseless gudgeon , And by their over - understanding lose Its active faculty with too much use ; For reason , when too curiously ' t is ...
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... less he's able , The more heroic , and formidable ; Lays by his reason in his bowls , As Turks are said to do their souls , Until it has so often been Shut out of its lodging , and let in , At length it never can attain To find the ...
... less he's able , The more heroic , and formidable ; Lays by his reason in his bowls , As Turks are said to do their souls , Until it has so often been Shut out of its lodging , and let in , At length it never can attain To find the ...
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... less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety . - Lavater . CXLII . What fool would trouble fortune more , When she has been too kind before ? Or tempt her to take back again What she ...
... less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety . - Lavater . CXLII . What fool would trouble fortune more , When she has been too kind before ? Or tempt her to take back again What she ...
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