World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... fall , as the waves do , and give as much as we conveniently can.- , -Selden . ADVERSITY , ITS BENEFITS . - A smooth ... falling column ; the lower it sinks , the greater weight it is obliged to sustain . Thus , when a man has no ...
... fall , as the waves do , and give as much as we conveniently can.- , -Selden . ADVERSITY , ITS BENEFITS . - A smooth ... falling column ; the lower it sinks , the greater weight it is obliged to sustain . Thus , when a man has no ...
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... falls . ANGER , ITS FOLLY . - To be angry , is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves . - Pope . ANGER , ITS IMPOTENCE . - Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man ; it effects noth- ing it goes about ...
... falls . ANGER , ITS FOLLY . - To be angry , is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves . - Pope . ANGER , ITS IMPOTENCE . - Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man ; it effects noth- ing it goes about ...
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... fall , one by one , an un- pitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle . — Burke . ATHEISM , ITS FOLLY.- -What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance , when all the skill of ...
... fall , one by one , an un- pitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle . — Burke . ATHEISM , ITS FOLLY.- -What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance , when all the skill of ...
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... falls into desperate courses . Sir M. Hale . — DEBT . I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold : it is " Pay as you go . " — John Randolph . DECEPTION . There are three persons you should never deceive ...
... falls into desperate courses . Sir M. Hale . — DEBT . I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold : it is " Pay as you go . " — John Randolph . DECEPTION . There are three persons you should never deceive ...
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... fall by chance into a most inge- nious and learned treatise of philosophy - Swift . DESIRABLE , WHAT THINGS ARE NOT . - Those things that are not practicable are not desirable . There is nothing in the world really beneficial , that ...
... fall by chance into a most inge- nious and learned treatise of philosophy - Swift . DESIRABLE , WHAT THINGS ARE NOT . - Those things that are not practicable are not desirable . There is nothing in the world really beneficial , that ...
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