Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... man , Brings forth in him the honorable fruits Of valour , wit , virtue , and haughty thoughts , Brave resolution , and divine ... man's self gives haps or mishaps even as he order- eth his heart . — Sir P. Sidney . XXI . Repentance is a ...
... man , Brings forth in him the honorable fruits Of valour , wit , virtue , and haughty thoughts , Brave resolution , and divine ... man's self gives haps or mishaps even as he order- eth his heart . — Sir P. Sidney . XXI . Repentance is a ...
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... man , but slavery unnatural ; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty , you strip him of all his virtues ; you convert his heart into a dark hole , into which all the vices conspire against you.- LACONICS . ๆ.
... man , but slavery unnatural ; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty , you strip him of all his virtues ; you convert his heart into a dark hole , into which all the vices conspire against you.- LACONICS . ๆ.
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... man , bred many - formed impressions : for some that thought this felicity prin- cipally to be gotten by knowledge ... man's self , in the ethic and politic consideration , with the end of well - doing , and not of well - knowing only ...
... man , bred many - formed impressions : for some that thought this felicity prin- cipally to be gotten by knowledge ... man's self , in the ethic and politic consideration , with the end of well - doing , and not of well - knowing only ...
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... man's life . - Sidney . XLIV . Others may use the ocean as their road , Only the English make it their abode ; Whose ready sails , with every wind can fly , And make a cov'nant with th ' inconstant sky . Our oaks secure as if they there ...
... man's life . - Sidney . XLIV . Others may use the ocean as their road , Only the English make it their abode ; Whose ready sails , with every wind can fly , And make a cov'nant with th ' inconstant sky . Our oaks secure as if they there ...
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... man to be subject to any vice , than to drunkenness : for all other vanities and sins are recovered , but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness ; for the longer it possesseth a man , the more he will delight in it ...
... man to be subject to any vice , than to drunkenness : for all other vanities and sins are recovered , but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness ; for the longer it possesseth a man , the more he will delight in it ...
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Page 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 232 - But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as Chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Page 125 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 337 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Page 120 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 152 - But there is no such man ; for, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Page 333 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Page 263 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 103 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 330 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?