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Tryon Edwards. Amusements Analogy Anarchy Ancestry Anecdotes Angels Anger Anticipation Antiquity Anxiety Apologies Apothegms Appearances Appetite Applause Appreciation Architecture Argument Aristocracy Army Arrogance Art Artifice ...
Tryon Edwards. Amusements Analogy Anarchy Ancestry Anecdotes Angels Anger Anticipation Antiquity Anxiety Apologies Apothegms Appearances Appetite Applause Appreciation Architecture Argument Aristocracy Army Arrogance Art Artifice ...
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... Apothegms. (See “Proverbs.”) Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.—Tryon Edwards. The short sayings of wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks ...
... Apothegms. (See “Proverbs.”) Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.—Tryon Edwards. The short sayings of wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks ...
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... apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and ...
... apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and ...
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action Apothegms Aristotle atheism beauty become Beecher believe better Bible blessing body Chapin character Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience danger death deeds desire devil divine doth duty earth Edwards Eliot enemy eternal everything evil faith fear feel flowers folly fool genius George Eliot give glory God’s grace greatest grow habit happiness hath heart heaven holy honor hope human idle ignorance Jeremy Taylor Joshua Reynolds kind knowledge labor learning liberty light live look man’s mankind marriage men’s mind moral nature never noble one’s opinion ourselves passions perfect person philosophy pleasure Plutarch principles Proverb Publius Syrus reason religion rich Rochefoucauld sense Shakespeare Simmons sorrow soul speak spirit temper thee Theodore Parker things thou thought today true truth vice virtue Voltaire Washington Allston weak wisdom wise word