Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... body's face but their own ; -which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it . - Swift . LV . A man's genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown ...
... body's face but their own ; -which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it . - Swift . LV . A man's genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown ...
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... body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best and the worst , there are , you say , innumerable degrees - and you ...
... body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best and the worst , there are , you say , innumerable degrees - and you ...
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... bodies , indissoluble by heat , can set the furnace and crucible at defiance , there are minds upon which the rays of fancy may be pointed with- out effect , and which no fire of sentiment can agitate , or exalt . - Johnson . CXVII . We ...
... bodies , indissoluble by heat , can set the furnace and crucible at defiance , there are minds upon which the rays of fancy may be pointed with- out effect , and which no fire of sentiment can agitate , or exalt . - Johnson . CXVII . We ...
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... body , and which only causes concern during its abserce - Arcesilaus . CXXXII . It might , methinks , somewhat abate the insolence of human pride , to consider , that it is but increasing or di- minishing the velocity of certain fluids ...
... body , and which only causes concern during its abserce - Arcesilaus . CXXXII . It might , methinks , somewhat abate the insolence of human pride , to consider , that it is but increasing or di- minishing the velocity of certain fluids ...
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... body is ready to give up ; it is no self - denial in him to be modest , to mingle with the multitude , that would open to make way for him , to take the lowest seat at a public meeting , that every one may see him there , and strive to ...
... body is ready to give up ; it is no self - denial in him to be modest , to mingle with the multitude , that would open to make way for him , to take the lowest seat at a public meeting , that every one may see him there , and strive to ...
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