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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... truths bear to great men the relation at once of cause and effect . A sublime truth , once uttered and made a part of standard literature , becomes thereafter a per- petual spur to noble deeds . The maxims of the wise form part of a ...
... truths bear to great men the relation at once of cause and effect . A sublime truth , once uttered and made a part of standard literature , becomes thereafter a per- petual spur to noble deeds . The maxims of the wise form part of a ...
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... TRUTH ; OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . Abuse of Power.- Shakspeare . THAT Man , that sits within a Monarch's heart , And ripens in the sunshine of his favour , Would he abuse the countenance of the King , Alack , what mischiefs might he set ...
... TRUTH ; OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . Abuse of Power.- Shakspeare . THAT Man , that sits within a Monarch's heart , And ripens in the sunshine of his favour , Would he abuse the countenance of the King , Alack , what mischiefs might he set ...
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... Truth is not at the bottom , Nature will always be endeavouring to return , and will peep out and betray herself one time or other . Action . Colton . - DELIBERATE with Caution , but act with Decision ; and yield with Graciousness , or ...
... Truth is not at the bottom , Nature will always be endeavouring to return , and will peep out and betray herself one time or other . Action . Colton . - DELIBERATE with Caution , but act with Decision ; and yield with Graciousness , or ...
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... Truth , and whether the rest of the World will give us the privilege or not , we have so little to ask of them , that we can take it . Age . - La Rochefoucauld . FEW People know how to be old . Age . - Byron . YET Time , who changes all ...
... Truth , and whether the rest of the World will give us the privilege or not , we have so little to ask of them , that we can take it . Age . - La Rochefoucauld . FEW People know how to be old . Age . - Byron . YET Time , who changes all ...
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... Truth which cunning Times put on To entrap the wisest . Appearances . — La Rochefoucauld . -- IN all the professions every one affects a particular look and ex- terior , in order to appear what he wishes to be thought ; so that may be ...
... Truth which cunning Times put on To entrap the wisest . Appearances . — La Rochefoucauld . -- IN all the professions every one affects a particular look and ex- terior , in order to appear what he wishes to be thought ; so that may be ...
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