A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern |
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... never in adversity ; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted . Anon . Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain , -cold , comfortless , unfriendly to man and to animal ; yet from that season have ...
... never in adversity ; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted . Anon . Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain , -cold , comfortless , unfriendly to man and to animal ; yet from that season have ...
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... never recover our sick - bed views . The good are better made by ill , as odors crushed are sweeter still - Rogers . What seem to us but dim funereal tapers , may be heaven's distant lamps . - Longfel low . It is from the remembrance of ...
... never recover our sick - bed views . The good are better made by ill , as odors crushed are sweeter still - Rogers . What seem to us but dim funereal tapers , may be heaven's distant lamps . - Longfel low . It is from the remembrance of ...
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... never grow so.— Tryon Edwards . A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.-O. W. Holmes . The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too ; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in ...
... never grow so.— Tryon Edwards . A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.-O. W. Holmes . The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too ; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in ...
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... never reach the top . - Burton . Ambition is a lust that is never quenched , but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment . - Otway . The noblest spirit is most strongly at- tracted by the love of glory .-- Cicero . It is the nature ...
... never reach the top . - Burton . Ambition is a lust that is never quenched , but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment . - Otway . The noblest spirit is most strongly at- tracted by the love of glory .-- Cicero . It is the nature ...
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... never arrive . Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them . - Johnson . Be not looking for evil . - Often thou drainest the gall of fear while ...
... never arrive . Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them . - Johnson . Be not looking for evil . - Often thou drainest the gall of fear while ...
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action atheism beauty believe better blessing Chapin character Chesterfield Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience death divine doth duty earth Eliot enemy eternal evil faith fear feel folly fool genius George Eliot give glory God's Goethe grace greatest H. W. Beecher habit happiness hath heart heaven honor hope human J. G. Holland Jeremy Taylor knowledge labor less liberty light live look man's mankind ment mind moral nature ness never noble opinion ourselves passions person Plato pleasure praise pride Proverb R. D. Hitchcock reason religion rich sense Shakespeare Simmons smile sorrow soul speak spirit teach temper thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion tongue true truth Tryon Edwards vice virtue Voltaire Walter Scott Washington Allston Washington Irving Wendell Phillips wisdom wise words
Popular passages
Page 447 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 548 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 395 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 271 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 372 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 456 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure ; reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Page 415 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 127 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 456 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 302 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.