World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and Poetry |
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Page 66
... turns its own executioner , and revenges its misfortunes on its own head . It refuses to live under disappointments and crosses , and chooses rather not to be at all , than to be without the thing which it hath once imagined necessary ...
... turns its own executioner , and revenges its misfortunes on its own head . It refuses to live under disappointments and crosses , and chooses rather not to be at all , than to be without the thing which it hath once imagined necessary ...
Page 69
... turns them to the advantage of their possessor . Without it , learning is pedantry ; wit , impertinence ; and virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his ...
... turns them to the advantage of their possessor . Without it , learning is pedantry ; wit , impertinence ; and virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his ...
Page 71
... turn our whole life into a holiday , is not only ridiculous , but destroyeth pleasure instead of promoting it . - Saville . DOING WELL . - Rest satisfied with doing well , and leave others to talk of you as they please . - Pythagoras ...
... turn our whole life into a holiday , is not only ridiculous , but destroyeth pleasure instead of promoting it . - Saville . DOING WELL . - Rest satisfied with doing well , and leave others to talk of you as they please . - Pythagoras ...
Page 88
... turn out of the seats of their ancestors , to make way for such new mas- ters as have been more exact in their accounts than them- selves . Addison . EXAGGERATIONS . - Never speak by superlatives ; for in so doing you will be likely to ...
... turn out of the seats of their ancestors , to make way for such new mas- ters as have been more exact in their accounts than them- selves . Addison . EXAGGERATIONS . - Never speak by superlatives ; for in so doing you will be likely to ...
Page 89
... turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage . The good he will make his patterns , and strive to equal or excel them . The bad he will by all means avoid .-- Thomas à Kempis . EXAMPLE . - Be a pattern to others , and then all will ...
... turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage . The good he will make his patterns , and strive to equal or excel them . The bad he will by all means avoid .-- Thomas à Kempis . EXAMPLE . - Be a pattern to others , and then all will ...
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