A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... Truth . Given the love and the wisdom , life's code of action follows . 25 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . II . Enterprise . Socrates ' Prayer . Action is but coarsened thought , - thought become con- crete , obscure , and unconscious ...
... Truth . Given the love and the wisdom , life's code of action follows . 25 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . II . Enterprise . Socrates ' Prayer . Action is but coarsened thought , - thought become con- crete , obscure , and unconscious ...
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... were , out of darkness , to inform the present world what the former did , and make us see truth through our ancestors ' eyes . 157 James Howell : Londonopolis . ANTIQUITY - APPREHENSION . Old friends are best . King ANGER - ANTIQUITY . 15.
... were , out of darkness , to inform the present world what the former did , and make us see truth through our ancestors ' eyes . 157 James Howell : Londonopolis . ANTIQUITY - APPREHENSION . Old friends are best . King ANGER - ANTIQUITY . 15.
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... truth or beauty which has its concep- tion in his own mind . 197 Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxiii . On Cer- tain Principles of Art in Works of Imagination . Art is a spiritual triumph . 198 William Ellery Channing : Note ...
... truth or beauty which has its concep- tion in his own mind . 197 Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxiii . On Cer- tain Principles of Art in Works of Imagination . Art is a spiritual triumph . 198 William Ellery Channing : Note ...
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... truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so , or the assembly so determines , without knowing other reason , though his belief be true , yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy . 438 BELLS . Milton ...
... truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so , or the assembly so determines , without knowing other reason , though his belief be true , yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy . 438 BELLS . Milton ...
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... truth to affirm that an excellent book ( and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton ) is like a well - chosen and well - tended fruit- tree . Its fruits are not of one season only . With the due and natural ...
... truth to affirm that an excellent book ( and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton ) is like a well - chosen and well - tended fruit- tree . Its fruits are not of one season only . With the due and natural ...
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