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So far as practicable , passages are grouped according to the subject matter ,
whether the subject - title occurs in them or not . The aim has been to indicate the
precise idea or dominant sentiment of the quotation . The same aim has
controlled ...
So far as practicable , passages are grouped according to the subject matter ,
whether the subject - title occurs in them or not . The aim has been to indicate the
precise idea or dominant sentiment of the quotation . The same aim has
controlled ...
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2 Froude : Short Studies on Great Subjects . Education . The possession of great
powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show . 3 Garfield :
Oration on Miss Booth . The winds and waves are always on the side of the
ablest ...
2 Froude : Short Studies on Great Subjects . Education . The possession of great
powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show . 3 Garfield :
Oration on Miss Booth . The winds and waves are always on the side of the
ablest ...
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The finest achievements in the art of acting , if they live at all as subjects of
popular knowledge , must live as pictures in the memory . 24 William Winter : The
Stage Life of Mary Anderson . Preface . ACTION — see Purpose , Speech ,
Training ...
The finest achievements in the art of acting , if they live at all as subjects of
popular knowledge , must live as pictures in the memory . 24 William Winter : The
Stage Life of Mary Anderson . Preface . ACTION — see Purpose , Speech ,
Training ...
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Set an ass to carry an elephant ' s burden , and his back will be broken . The man
of few brains cannot do the work of the man of many brains . 48 J . G . Holland :
Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects . 1 . Self - Help . Every tree and shrub is a distaff
...
Set an ass to carry an elephant ' s burden , and his back will be broken . The man
of few brains cannot do the work of the man of many brains . 48 J . G . Holland :
Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects . 1 . Self - Help . Every tree and shrub is a distaff
...
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... who can be a first - rate something — as every man can be who is a man at all
— has no right to be a fifthrate something ; for a fifth - rate something is no better
than a first - rate nothing . 105 J . G . Holland : Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects .
... who can be a first - rate something — as every man can be who is a man at all
— has no right to be a fifthrate something ; for a fifth - rate something is no better
than a first - rate nothing . 105 J . G . Holland : Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects .
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Page 109 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 57 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 387 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 457 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 418 - I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Page 463 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 546 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 326 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 445 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 120 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
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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 University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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