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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... grows again toward Earth , Is fashion'd for the journey , dull and heavy . Age . - Pope . LEARN to live well , or fairly make your will ; You've play'd , and lov'd , and ate , and drank your Fill , Walk sober off , before a sprightlier ...
... grows again toward Earth , Is fashion'd for the journey , dull and heavy . Age . - Pope . LEARN to live well , or fairly make your will ; You've play'd , and lov'd , and ate , and drank your Fill , Walk sober off , before a sprightlier ...
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... grow virtuous in their old Age , they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings . Age . - Madame de Stael . Ir is difficult to grow old gracefully . Agreeableness.- La Rochefoucauld . WE may say of Agreeableness , as ...
... grow virtuous in their old Age , they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings . Age . - Madame de Stael . Ir is difficult to grow old gracefully . Agreeableness.- La Rochefoucauld . WE may say of Agreeableness , as ...
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... grow in a barren Soil . Abarice . Moore . THE Love of Gold , that meanest rage , And latest folly of Man's sinking age , Which , rarely venturing in the van of life , While nobler passions wage their heated strife , Comes skulking last ...
... grow in a barren Soil . Abarice . Moore . THE Love of Gold , that meanest rage , And latest folly of Man's sinking age , Which , rarely venturing in the van of life , While nobler passions wage their heated strife , Comes skulking last ...
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... grows a Flower , thus quietly she grew , And kept her Heart serene within its Zone . There was Awe in the Homage which she drew ; Her Spirit seem'd as seated on a throne Apart from the surrounding World , and strong In its own strength ...
... grows a Flower , thus quietly she grew , And kept her Heart serene within its Zone . There was Awe in the Homage which she drew ; Her Spirit seem'd as seated on a throne Apart from the surrounding World , and strong In its own strength ...
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... grow , If thy sweet Virtue answer not thy Show ! Beauty . Shakspeare . COULD Beauty have better commerce than with Honesty ? Beauty . - Spenser . HER Looks were like beams of the morning Sun , Forth - looking through the window of the ...
... grow , If thy sweet Virtue answer not thy Show ! Beauty . Shakspeare . COULD Beauty have better commerce than with Honesty ? Beauty . - Spenser . HER Looks were like beams of the morning Sun , Forth - looking through the window of the ...
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