A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... poor I am , no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling , if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof , if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise , and ...
... poor I am , no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling , if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof , if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise , and ...
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... Poor Richard's Almanac . BRAINS . Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high . 589 Thomas Fuller : Andronicus , ad fin . I. BRAVERY - see Courage . A brave man never dies . 590 Owen Felltham : Resolves ...
... Poor Richard's Almanac . BRAINS . Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high . 589 Thomas Fuller : Andronicus , ad fin . I. BRAVERY - see Courage . A brave man never dies . 590 Owen Felltham : Resolves ...
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... Poor Richard's Almanac . Hang sorrow , care'll kill a cat . 612 Ben Jonson : Every Man in His Humor . Act i . Sc . 3 . Care is an enemy to life . 613 Shakespeare : Twelfth Night . Act i . Sc . 3 . CAUSE CAUTION . CAUSE . This notion of ...
... Poor Richard's Almanac . Hang sorrow , care'll kill a cat . 612 Ben Jonson : Every Man in His Humor . Act i . Sc . 3 . Care is an enemy to life . 613 Shakespeare : Twelfth Night . Act i . Sc . 3 . CAUSE CAUTION . CAUSE . This notion of ...
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... poor according to what he is , not according to what he has . 643 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Many men build as cathedrals were built , - the part nearest the ground finished , but that part which soars toward ...
... poor according to what he is , not according to what he has . 643 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Many men build as cathedrals were built , - the part nearest the ground finished , but that part which soars toward ...
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... poor widow in her lonely toil , and comes like light through the windows of morning , to men who sit stooping and feeble , with failing It is gone , all gone ; only the eyes and a hungering heart . cold , bleak world left before them ...
... poor widow in her lonely toil , and comes like light through the windows of morning , to men who sit stooping and feeble , with failing It is gone , all gone ; only the eyes and a hungering heart . cold , bleak world left before them ...
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