A Handful of Paper ShavingsSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1861 |
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... moral feeling . We call ourselves rational beings , but it is opinion which governs our lives , not reason . We may control our appe- tites , but we are not the masters of our opinions . A FINANCIAL STATEMENT . There is but one reason ...
... moral feeling . We call ourselves rational beings , but it is opinion which governs our lives , not reason . We may control our appe- tites , but we are not the masters of our opinions . A FINANCIAL STATEMENT . There is but one reason ...
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... moral philosopher does know , that the wise giver is the greatest gainer by the gift . Churlish self - denial is a miserable virtue . Better glut on a fast day than eat fish and behave like a starved bear . ILL - TREATMENT OF DUMB ...
... moral philosopher does know , that the wise giver is the greatest gainer by the gift . Churlish self - denial is a miserable virtue . Better glut on a fast day than eat fish and behave like a starved bear . ILL - TREATMENT OF DUMB ...
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... It is fortunate for the moral progress of the human race that no man can ever exactly determine the limit of his own authority over his own actions . What a degraded being is he who has almost ceased to make 38 PAPER SHAVINGS .
... It is fortunate for the moral progress of the human race that no man can ever exactly determine the limit of his own authority over his own actions . What a degraded being is he who has almost ceased to make 38 PAPER SHAVINGS .
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... Morality is impossible when self - reliance is gone . Happily , there are few persons who do not believe in themselves . Take the world as a whole , conceit preponderates over modesty , and that is the result of a providential ...
... Morality is impossible when self - reliance is gone . Happily , there are few persons who do not believe in themselves . Take the world as a whole , conceit preponderates over modesty , and that is the result of a providential ...
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... moral sentiments or conscientious scruples , and he must be a knave or a coward if he submits to it quietly . Place no confidence in him who affects to join in a joke at his own moral principles : such an one has no confi- dence in ...
... moral sentiments or conscientious scruples , and he must be a knave or a coward if he submits to it quietly . Place no confidence in him who affects to join in a joke at his own moral principles : such an one has no confi- dence in ...
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admiration affection argument attachment Beauty believe cease character cheat cheerfulness circumstances Cleombrotus compliment conceit conscience consider Cydippe death delight Delphos discover doubt earnest earth emotion enjoyment enthusiasm escutcheon evil face faith favour feeling fly for fun force forgotten tale friendship gift give God's habit happy heart Heaven honesty honour honour among thieves Hope human human flea hypocrite idea illuminated records influence kind knave labour light light Hope live look man's mankind mental Metempsychosis mind modesty moral nature ness never noble object one's one'sself open to conviction opinion ourselves pains passion perseverance person petrifaction philosopher physiognomy pity pleasure Polybius pretending pride principle Punctuality reason remarkable rogue sacrifice seldom self-denial selfish sensible smile sometimes spirit sure tell Terpander thing thought tion to-day trouble true trust trusting your friend truth TU QUOQUE TWO-FACED unpunctual vanity virtue wonderful word worth
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Page 131 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 127 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 131 - Romeo : and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world shall be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 83 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 124 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 26 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 139 - Oh ! o'er the eye death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light ! Sinks those blue orbs in that long last eclipse, But spares, as yet, the charm around her lips...
Page 142 - The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
Page 127 - Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face, Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair...
Page 143 - As if thou then hadat shut up in thy brain Some horrible conceit.