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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... better made by ill : - As odours crush'd are sweeter still ! Adversity . Byron . - A THOUSAND years scarce serve to form a State ; An hour may lay it in the dust ; and when Can Man its shatter'd splendour renovate , Recall its virtues ...
... better made by ill : - As odours crush'd are sweeter still ! Adversity . Byron . - A THOUSAND years scarce serve to form a State ; An hour may lay it in the dust ; and when Can Man its shatter'd splendour renovate , Recall its virtues ...
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... Better than you yourself . Age . - Shakspeare . THE aim of all is but to nurse the Life With Honour , Wealth and Ease , in waning Age : And in this aim there is such thwarting strife , That one for all , or all for one we gage : As Life ...
... Better than you yourself . Age . - Shakspeare . THE aim of all is but to nurse the Life With Honour , Wealth and Ease , in waning Age : And in this aim there is such thwarting strife , That one for all , or all for one we gage : As Life ...
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... BETTER to be despised for too anxious apprehensions , than ruined by too confident a security . Argument . Butler . It is vain ( I see ) to argue ' gainst the grain , Or like the stars , incline men to What they're averse themselves to ...
... BETTER to be despised for too anxious apprehensions , than ruined by too confident a security . Argument . Butler . It is vain ( I see ) to argue ' gainst the grain , Or like the stars , incline men to What they're averse themselves to ...
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... better commerce than with Honesty ? Beauty . - Spenser . HER Looks were like beams of the morning Sun , Forth - looking through the window of the East , When first the fleecie Cattle have begun Upon their perled grass to make their ...
... better commerce than with Honesty ? Beauty . - Spenser . HER Looks were like beams of the morning Sun , Forth - looking through the window of the East , When first the fleecie Cattle have begun Upon their perled grass to make their ...
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... better than all the letters of recommendation in the World ; Homer , that ' twas a glorious gift of Nature ; and Ovid , alluding to him , calls it a favour bestowed by the Gods . Beauty . - Lord Greville . THE Criterion of true Beauty ...
... better than all the letters of recommendation in the World ; Homer , that ' twas a glorious gift of Nature ; and Ovid , alluding to him , calls it a favour bestowed by the Gods . Beauty . - Lord Greville . THE Criterion of true Beauty ...
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