A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... - rate something ; for a fifth - rate something is no better than a first - rate nothing . 105 J. G. Holland : Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects . I. Self - Help . AMBITION . In politics , as in life , we 10 AMBITION .
... - rate something ; for a fifth - rate something is no better than a first - rate nothing . 105 J. G. Holland : Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects . I. Self - Help . AMBITION . In politics , as in life , we 10 AMBITION .
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... politics , as in life , we must above all things wish only for the attainable . 106 Heine : Wit , Wisdom , and Pathos . From " Lutetia . " Men's ambition is generally proportioned to their capacity . Providence seldom sends any into the ...
... politics , as in life , we must above all things wish only for the attainable . 106 Heine : Wit , Wisdom , and Pathos . From " Lutetia . " Men's ambition is generally proportioned to their capacity . Providence seldom sends any into the ...
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... political gen- tleness . Ambition , on the contrary , is hard - hearted , and the greatest fomenter of envy . 117 Plutarch : Lives . Aristides and Marcus Cato . Though ambition in itself is a vice , yet it is often the parent of virtues ...
... political gen- tleness . Ambition , on the contrary , is hard - hearted , and the greatest fomenter of envy . 117 Plutarch : Lives . Aristides and Marcus Cato . Though ambition in itself is a vice , yet it is often the parent of virtues ...
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... Politics . American Principles . ANGER -see Cruelty , Hatred . Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not . 141 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts . Fire hath its force abated by water , not by wind ; and ...
... Politics . American Principles . ANGER -see Cruelty , Hatred . Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not . 141 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts . Fire hath its force abated by water , not by wind ; and ...
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... Political Economy of Art . Note 3 . Nothing can be done well in art except by vision . Addenda . 235 Ruskin : The Stones of Venice . The Fall . Ch . 2 . The art is wrong which either realizes its subject completely or fails in giving ...
... Political Economy of Art . Note 3 . Nothing can be done well in art except by vision . Addenda . 235 Ruskin : The Stones of Venice . The Fall . Ch . 2 . The art is wrong which either realizes its subject completely or fails in giving ...
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