Essence of wisdom, distilled from the flowers of ancient and modern literature, by A. Walker1873 |
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... ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber - upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees . THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM . 9.
... ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber - upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees . THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM . 9.
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... once driven up to the head , the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out , but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood . St. Augustine . BLASPHEMY . Take not His name , who made thy tongue , in vain ; It gets thee nothing ...
... once driven up to the head , the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out , but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood . St. Augustine . BLASPHEMY . Take not His name , who made thy tongue , in vain ; It gets thee nothing ...
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... once made to a re- pining person , much given to talk of how great she and hers had been - ' Yes , madam , ' was the crushing reply , we all find our level at last . " " With all his tumid boasts , is like the sword - fish , Who only ...
... once made to a re- pining person , much given to talk of how great she and hers had been - ' Yes , madam , ' was the crushing reply , we all find our level at last . " " With all his tumid boasts , is like the sword - fish , Who only ...
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... once gone , it can never be replaced . According to the poet , ' All's well that end well ; ' but there is seldom a good end that has not a good beginning . " Great is the steadiness of soul and thought , By reason bred , and by ...
... once gone , it can never be replaced . According to the poet , ' All's well that end well ; ' but there is seldom a good end that has not a good beginning . " Great is the steadiness of soul and thought , By reason bred , and by ...
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... once was young . Johnson . CREDULITY . Credulity , or an easiness to believe , without reason or scripture , is a stranger to wisdom , and the very nurse of superstition . Whichcote . Blessed credulity , thou great god of error , Thou ...
... once was young . Johnson . CREDULITY . Credulity , or an easiness to believe , without reason or scripture , is a stranger to wisdom , and the very nurse of superstition . Whichcote . Blessed credulity , thou great god of error , Thou ...
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Page 110 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 13 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 88 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 90 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Page 151 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Page 148 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 168 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Page 132 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 117 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 9 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.