A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... mind is capable of enduring from youth to extreme age . 90 Joanna Baillie : Plays on the Passions . Preface . To the Reader . Ambition can creep as well as soar . The pride of no per- son in a flourishing condition is more justly to be ...
... mind is capable of enduring from youth to extreme age . 90 Joanna Baillie : Plays on the Passions . Preface . To the Reader . Ambition can creep as well as soar . The pride of no per- son in a flourishing condition is more justly to be ...
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... mind in a higher key , and puts us at our best . 116 Parkhurst : Sermons . I. The Pattern in the Mount . A mind free from ambition is a main help to 11.
... mind in a higher key , and puts us at our best . 116 Parkhurst : Sermons . I. The Pattern in the Mount . A mind free from ambition is a main help to 11.
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... mind free from ambition is a main help to 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 ...
... mind free from ambition is a main help to 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 ...
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... minds of others for the purpose of rendering more full and complete the reali- zation of that idea of truth or beauty which has its concep- tion in his own mind . 197 Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxiii . On Cer- tain Principles ...
... minds of others for the purpose of rendering more full and complete the reali- zation of that idea of truth or beauty which has its concep- tion in his own mind . 197 Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxiii . On Cer- tain Principles ...
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... mind . 218 Joubert : Pensées . No. 326. ( Attwell , Translator . ) The youth of art is handsome , its manhood pompous , its old age rich , but overcharged with ornaments which disfigure it and hasten its decay . 219 Joubert : Pensées ...
... mind . 218 Joubert : Pensées . No. 326. ( Attwell , Translator . ) The youth of art is handsome , its manhood pompous , its old age rich , but overcharged with ornaments which disfigure it and hasten its decay . 219 Joubert : Pensées ...
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