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Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue , then make the building as rich and
as glorious as thou canst . If the foundation be beauty or wealth , and the building
virtue , the foundation is too weak for the building , and it will fall . Happy is he the
...
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue , then make the building as rich and
as glorious as thou canst . If the foundation be beauty or wealth , and the building
virtue , the foundation is too weak for the building , and it will fall . Happy is he the
...
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... wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it . 387 Johnson : The
Rambler . No . 151 . There are some sordid souls , grovelling in filth and ordure ,
to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls :
sensible ...
... wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it . 387 Johnson : The
Rambler . No . 151 . There are some sordid souls , grovelling in filth and ordure ,
to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls :
sensible ...
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Beauty is as summer fruits , which are easy to corrupt , and cannot last ; and , for
the most part , it makes a dissolute youth , and an age a little out of countenance ;
but yet certainly again , if it light well , it maketh virtues shine , and vices blush .
Beauty is as summer fruits , which are easy to corrupt , and cannot last ; and , for
the most part , it makes a dissolute youth , and an age a little out of countenance ;
but yet certainly again , if it light well , it maketh virtues shine , and vices blush .
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He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against
calamity . 516 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Quotation and Originality . The
virtue of books is to be readable . 517 Emerson : Society and Solitude .
Eloquence .
He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against
calamity . 516 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Quotation and Originality . The
virtue of books is to be readable . 517 Emerson : Society and Solitude .
Eloquence .
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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and
do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . 660 Emerson : Essays
. Self - Reliance . Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ...
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and
do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . 660 Emerson : Essays
. Self - Reliance . Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ...
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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