World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... greater weight it is obliged to sustain . Thus , when a man has no occasion to borrow , he finds numbers willing to lend him . Should he ask his friend to lend him a hundred pounds , it is possible , from the largeness of his demand ...
... greater weight it is obliged to sustain . Thus , when a man has no occasion to borrow , he finds numbers willing to lend him . Should he ask his friend to lend him a hundred pounds , it is possible , from the largeness of his demand ...
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... greater subtlety to prove that both benefits and injuries re- ceive their value from the intention , when even brutes them- selves are able to decide this question . Tread upon a dog by chance , or put him to pain upon the dressing of a ...
... greater subtlety to prove that both benefits and injuries re- ceive their value from the intention , when even brutes them- selves are able to decide this question . Tread upon a dog by chance , or put him to pain upon the dressing of a ...
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... greater sin , but not to confer it is the earlier . - Seneca . BENEVOLENCE NOT TO BE PUT OFF . - Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress - tree , they may appear well , but are fruitless ; so rich persons have the means to ...
... greater sin , but not to confer it is the earlier . - Seneca . BENEVOLENCE NOT TO BE PUT OFF . - Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress - tree , they may appear well , but are fruitless ; so rich persons have the means to ...
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... greater his facilities for making additions to it . Character is power - is influence ; it makes friends ; creates funds ; draws patronage and sup- port ; and opens a sure and easy way to wealth , honor , and happiness . - Hawes ...
... greater his facilities for making additions to it . Character is power - is influence ; it makes friends ; creates funds ; draws patronage and sup- port ; and opens a sure and easy way to wealth , honor , and happiness . - Hawes ...
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... greater than he who can hide his griefs . - Lavater . CONCEIT . - Nature loves truth so well , that it hardly ever admits of flourishing . Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless , but impairs what it ...
... greater than he who can hide his griefs . - Lavater . CONCEIT . - Nature loves truth so well , that it hardly ever admits of flourishing . Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless , but impairs what it ...
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