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... Bacon. I would fain coin wisdom, – mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Joubert. PREFACE A verse may find him whom a sermon flies. Writers of an abler sort, ...
... Bacon. I would fain coin wisdom, – mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Joubert. PREFACE A verse may find him whom a sermon flies. Writers of an abler sort, ...
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... Bacon. None are so desolate but something dear, dearer than self, possesses or possess'd. —Byron. Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll ...
... Bacon. None are so desolate but something dear, dearer than self, possesses or possess'd. —Byron. Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll ...
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... delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs. —Bacon. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion.
... delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs. —Bacon. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion.
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... Bacon. Our armor all is strong, our cause the best; then reason wills our hearts should be as good. —Shakespeare. Art.– Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done: passion ...
... Bacon. Our armor all is strong, our cause the best; then reason wills our hearts should be as good. —Shakespeare. Art.– Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done: passion ...
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... Bacon. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shall enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse ...
... Bacon. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shall enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse ...
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action Addison Alfred de Musset Arsène Houssaye Bacon beautiful Beecher better Bulwer BulwerLytton Burke Byron Carlyle Chapin Charles Buxton Coleridge Colton death divine Douglas Jerrold Dryden earth Emerson everything evil eyes fear feel Feltham flowers fools fortune friends genius George Eliot George Herbert George MacDonald give Goethe Goldsmith hand happiness hath heart heaven Heinrich Heine honor hope human imagination Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Johnson Joubert knowledge labor Lamartine light live look Lytton Macaulay Madame Swetchine man's mankind Mazzini Milton mind Montaigne moral nature never noble P. J. Bailey pain passions Petit Senn pleasure poet poetry Pope reason religion Richter ruin Ruskin Samuel Smiles sense Shakespeare sorrow soul Spurgeon sweet Sydney Smith tears Tennyson things Thoreau thou thought today true truth Victor Hugo virtue Voltaire wisdom wise woman words