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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... brightest ray ; As Night to Stars , Woe lustre gives to Man . Advice . - Von Knebel . HE who can take Advice , is sometimes superior to him who can give it . WE Affability . From the French . - AFFABILITY in 4 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ;
... brightest ray ; As Night to Stars , Woe lustre gives to Man . Advice . - Von Knebel . HE who can take Advice , is sometimes superior to him who can give it . WE Affability . From the French . - AFFABILITY in 4 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ;
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... 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 , had alter'd him In Soul and Aspect as in Age ...
... 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 , had alter'd him In Soul and Aspect as in Age ...
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... vates the character and improves the heart . Anger . Shakspeare . - MUST I give way and room to your rash Choler ? Shall I be frighted , when a Madman stares ? Anger . Shakspeare . FRET , till your proud heart 10 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ;
... vates the character and improves the heart . Anger . Shakspeare . - MUST I give way and room to your rash Choler ? Shall I be frighted , when a Madman stares ? Anger . Shakspeare . FRET , till your proud heart 10 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ;
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... give it currency and utility . For all the practical purposes of Life , Truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a Schoolman , and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf , and teach her to live with Men , have the ...
... give it currency and utility . For all the practical purposes of Life , Truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a Schoolman , and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf , and teach her to live with Men , have the ...
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... give to forms that pass us by In the world's crowd , too lovely to remain , Creatures of light we never see again ! Beauty . - Byron . BUT Virtue's self , with all her tightest laces , Has not the natural stays of strict old age ; And ...
... give to forms that pass us by In the world's crowd , too lovely to remain , Creatures of light we never see again ! Beauty . - Byron . BUT Virtue's self , with all her tightest laces , Has not the natural stays of strict old age ; And ...
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