A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... Poor Richard's Almanac . We may give advice , but we cannot give conduct . 72 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Almanac . Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us ex- cept the very thing we wish them to do . There is one ...
... Poor Richard's Almanac . We may give advice , but we cannot give conduct . 72 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Almanac . Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us ex- cept the very thing we wish them to do . There is one ...
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... poor make themselves poorer as apes of the rich , and the merely rich carry themselves like princes . 121 AMERICA Lew Wallace : Ben - Hur . Bk . iv . Ch . 11 . see Freedom , Government , Great Brit- ain , Liberty , Newspapers ...
... poor make themselves poorer as apes of the rich , and the merely rich carry themselves like princes . 121 AMERICA Lew Wallace : Ben - Hur . Bk . iv . Ch . 11 . see Freedom , Government , Great Brit- ain , Liberty , Newspapers ...
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... poor child the more unmercifully in order that he may weep plenty of pearls . 257 Heine : Wit , Wisdom , and Pathos . Musical Notes from Paris . The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear percep- tion and a firm , bold hand ...
... poor child the more unmercifully in order that he may weep plenty of pearls . 257 Heine : Wit , Wisdom , and Pathos . Musical Notes from Paris . The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear percep- tion and a firm , bold hand ...
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... Poor - Devil Author . The - is Books ! their worth is a matter of fancy , say of weakness to the weaker part of mankind ; they have no standard value , none at their birth . Hence the unknown maker of a book I speak especially of the ...
... Poor - Devil Author . The - is Books ! their worth is a matter of fancy , say of weakness to the weaker part of mankind ; they have no standard value , none at their birth . Hence the unknown maker of a book I speak especially of the ...
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... poor ; but endowed with this treasure of treasures , the poorest man is rich . He has wealth which no power can diminish , riches which are always increasing , possessions which the more he scatters the more they accumulate , friends ...
... poor ; but endowed with this treasure of treasures , the poorest man is rich . He has wealth which no power can diminish , riches which are always increasing , possessions which the more he scatters the more they accumulate , friends ...
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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 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 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 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 279 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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 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.
Page 552 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Page 5 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.