A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... happiness herself is soon sacrificed to that very lust of dominion , which was first encouraged only as the best mode of obtaining it . 98 Colton : Lacon . Hitch your wagon to a star . 99 Emerson : Essay on Civilization . Society and ...
... happiness herself is soon sacrificed to that very lust of dominion , which was first encouraged only as the best mode of obtaining it . 98 Colton : Lacon . Hitch your wagon to a star . 99 Emerson : Essay on Civilization . Society and ...
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... happiness . 336 Johnson : The Rambler . No. 2 . There is something noble in publishing truth , though it condemns one's self . 337 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson . V. 210 . ( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor , 1887. ) There seems to ...
... happiness . 336 Johnson : The Rambler . No. 2 . There is something noble in publishing truth , though it condemns one's self . 337 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson . V. 210 . ( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor , 1887. ) There seems to ...
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... happiness on all , and under its influ- ence every being forgets that he is limited . 422 Schiller Essays , Esthetical and Philosophical . Letter xxvii . Beauty is absolutely but a property of the world of sense ; and the artist , who ...
... happiness on all , and under its influ- ence every being forgets that he is limited . 422 Schiller Essays , Esthetical and Philosophical . Letter xxvii . Beauty is absolutely but a property of the world of sense ; and the artist , who ...
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... , that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness . Pt . ii . Sect . ii . 461 Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy . Mem . 4 . Nothing , while I live and think , can deprive BIBLE - BIBLIOPHILISM . 45.
... , that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness . Pt . ii . Sect . ii . 461 Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy . Mem . 4 . Nothing , while I live and think , can deprive BIBLE - BIBLIOPHILISM . 45.
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... happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him . 631 Wilhelm von Humboldt : Letters to a Female Friend . ( Couper , Translator . ) A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected . Johnson : Rasselas . Ch ...
... happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him . 631 Wilhelm von Humboldt : Letters to a Female Friend . ( Couper , Translator . ) A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected . Johnson : Rasselas . Ch ...
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