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... PRIDE . PRINCIPLES . SACRIFICE . SADNESS . SARCASM . SATIETY . SWORD . SYMPATHY . SYSTEM . OATHS . 0 . OBEDIENCE OBESITY . OBLIGATION . OBLIVION . OBSCURITY . OBSERVATION . OBSTINACY . OBTUSENESS . OCCUPATION . OFFENCE . OFFICE ...
... PRIDE . PRINCIPLES . SACRIFICE . SADNESS . SARCASM . SATIETY . SWORD . SYMPATHY . SYSTEM . OATHS . 0 . OBEDIENCE OBESITY . OBLIGATION . OBLIVION . OBSCURITY . OBSERVATION . OBSTINACY . OBTUSENESS . OCCUPATION . OFFENCE . OFFICE ...
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... pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard , there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation , or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.- Johnson . Alas ! our young affections run to ...
... pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard , there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation , or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.- Johnson . Alas ! our young affections run to ...
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... pride , and covetousness . - Burton . Ambition is an idol , on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme , -to be sub- limely great , or to be nothing . - Southern . Moderation cannot have the credit of com- bating and ...
... pride , and covetousness . - Burton . Ambition is an idol , on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme , -to be sub- limely great , or to be nothing . - Southern . Moderation cannot have the credit of com- bating and ...
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... pride and vanity of ambitious persons is not so big as the smallest star which we see scattered in disorder and unregarded on the pavement of heaven . - Jeremy Taylor . The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds , and ...
... pride and vanity of ambitious persons is not so big as the smallest star which we see scattered in disorder and unregarded on the pavement of heaven . - Jeremy Taylor . The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds , and ...
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... pride ; as there is also a care for posterity , which only disguises an habitual avarice , or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity . But there is also a moral and philosophical re- spect for our ancestors , which elevates ...
... pride ; as there is also a care for posterity , which only disguises an habitual avarice , or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity . But there is also a moral and philosophical re- spect for our ancestors , which elevates ...
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Page 239 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 117 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 389 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 17 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 139 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 14 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 8 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 303 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 291 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 99 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.