A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... 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 palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue , walled with riches ...
... 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 palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue , walled with riches ...
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... thou art not thyself ashamed , none will endeavor to make thee so . 133 Cervantes : Don Quixote . Pt . ii . Ch . 43 . ( Jarvis , Translator . ) This is the true pride of ancestry . It is founded in the tenderness with which the child ...
... thou art not thyself ashamed , none will endeavor to make thee so . 133 Cervantes : Don Quixote . Pt . ii . Ch . 43 . ( Jarvis , Translator . ) This is the true pride of ancestry . It is founded in the tenderness with which the child ...
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... thou who art able to write a book , which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do , envy not him whom they name city - builder , and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city - burner ! Thou , too ...
... thou who art able to write a book , which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do , envy not him whom they name city - builder , and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city - burner ! Thou , too ...
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... thou write with a goose - pen , no matter . 362 Shakespeare : Twelfth Night . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Look in thy heart and write . 363 Sir Philip Sidney : Maxim . A quick ear and eye , an ability to discern the infinite sug- gestiveness of ...
... thou write with a goose - pen , no matter . 362 Shakespeare : Twelfth Night . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Look in thy heart and write . 363 Sir Philip Sidney : Maxim . A quick ear and eye , an ability to discern the infinite sug- gestiveness of ...
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... have the fortune of a conquest , but cannot keep it . Beauty and art can no more be asunder than love and honor . Wycherley : Love in a Wood . Act iii . Sc . 2 . 430 BEGGARS - BENEVOLENCE . BEGGARS -see Valor . Thou hast 42 BEAUTY .
... have the fortune of a conquest , but cannot keep it . Beauty and art can no more be asunder than love and honor . Wycherley : Love in a Wood . Act iii . Sc . 2 . 430 BEGGARS - BENEVOLENCE . BEGGARS -see Valor . Thou hast 42 BEAUTY .
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