Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... Pride in the other . Adversity . β Shakspeare . SWEET are the uses of Adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head . Adversity . Addison . THE Gods in bounty work up Storms about us ...
... Pride in the other . Adversity . β Shakspeare . SWEET are the uses of Adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head . Adversity . Addison . THE Gods in bounty work up Storms about us ...
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... Pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me , Weary , and old with service , to the mercy Of a rude stream , that must for ever hide me . Ambition . Byron . - BUT quiet to quick bosoms is a Hell , And there hath been thy bane ...
... Pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me , Weary , and old with service , to the mercy Of a rude stream , that must for ever hide me . Ambition . Byron . - BUT quiet to quick bosoms is a Hell , And there hath been thy bane ...
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... pride ought to be their humilia- tion . Ancestry . Percival . - I AM one , Who finds within me a nobility , That spurns the idle pratings of the great , And their mean boast of what their fathers were , While they themselves are fools ...
... pride ought to be their humilia- tion . Ancestry . Percival . - I AM one , Who finds within me a nobility , That spurns the idle pratings of the great , And their mean boast of what their fathers were , While they themselves are fools ...
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... Pride . Assuming . β De Moy . SSUMED Qualities may catch the Affections of some , but onβ must possess Qualities really good , to fix the heart . Associates . β Fuiler . - ASSOCIATE with Men of OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 15.
... Pride . Assuming . β De Moy . SSUMED Qualities may catch the Affections of some , but onβ must possess Qualities really good , to fix the heart . Associates . β Fuiler . - ASSOCIATE with Men of OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 15.
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... pride or covetize , Which might their Names for ever memorize ! Authors . Cowper . - NONE but an Author knows an Author's cares , Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears . Autumn . Spenser . THEN came the Autumne , all in Yellow ...
... pride or covetize , Which might their Names for ever memorize ! Authors . Cowper . - NONE but an Author knows an Author's cares , Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears . Autumn . Spenser . THEN came the Autumne , all in Yellow ...
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