Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... soul ; and there cannot be a more evident , palpable , gross manifestation , of poor , degenerate , dunghilly blood and breeding , than a rude , unpolished , disordered , and slovenly outside . — Massinger . VIII . Till a man is capable ...
... soul ; and there cannot be a more evident , palpable , gross manifestation , of poor , degenerate , dunghilly blood and breeding , than a rude , unpolished , disordered , and slovenly outside . — Massinger . VIII . Till a man is capable ...
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... soul ; it does not lie in the valour of our horse , nor of our arms , 9 but in ourselves . He that falls obstinate in his courage , Si succiderit de genu pugnat ; if his legs fail him , fights upon his knees . - Montaigne . XXV . In a ...
... soul ; it does not lie in the valour of our horse , nor of our arms , 9 but in ourselves . He that falls obstinate in his courage , Si succiderit de genu pugnat ; if his legs fail him , fights upon his knees . - Montaigne . XXV . In a ...
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... soul is published , seeing onely the things which almost touch his eyes . - Fuller . LIX . There is a manner of forgiving so divine , that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth c 2 LACONICS . 15 LV. ...
... soul is published , seeing onely the things which almost touch his eyes . - Fuller . LIX . There is a manner of forgiving so divine , that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth c 2 LACONICS . 15 LV. ...
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... soul , considered with its Creator , is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it : * and can there be a thought so transporting , as to consider ourselves ...
... soul , considered with its Creator , is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it : * and can there be a thought so transporting , as to consider ourselves ...
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... souls , Until it has so often been Shut out of its lodging , and let in , At length it never can attain To find the right way ... soul lying in the nakedest manner visible : all his passions come out now , all his va- nities , and those ...
... souls , Until it has so often been Shut out of its lodging , and let in , At length it never can attain To find the right way ... soul lying in the nakedest manner visible : all his passions come out now , all his va- nities , and those ...
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