Pearls of ThoughtLitres, 15. maj 2022 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 27
Side
... passion for her rush in one current with all the great aims of his life. —George Eliot. Admiration is the base of ignorance. —Balthasar Gracian. It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved ...
... passion for her rush in one current with all the great aims of his life. —George Eliot. Admiration is the base of ignorance. —Balthasar Gracian. It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved ...
Side
... passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide into the port of age! —Shenstone. Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may disengage from the world by degrees. —Jeremy Collier. Age oppresses by the same degrees that it ...
... passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide into the port of age! —Shenstone. Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may disengage from the world by degrees. —Jeremy Collier. Age oppresses by the same degrees that it ...
Side
... passions. —Hume. An ardent thirst of honor; a soul unsatisfied with all it has done, and an unextinguished desire of doing more. —Dryden. Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. —George MacDonald. Think not ambition wise, because ...
... passions. —Hume. An ardent thirst of honor; a soul unsatisfied with all it has done, and an unextinguished desire of doing more. —Dryden. Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. —George MacDonald. Think not ambition wise, because ...
Side
... passion carries them, it will be well done: passion knows more than art. —Baron. It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or ...
... passion carries them, it will be well done: passion knows more than art. —Baron. It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or ...
Side
... passion too many. I would steal no violet from the young maiden's bosom; rather would I fill her arms with more fragrant roses. But a life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life, not worth the ...
... passion too many. I would steal no violet from the young maiden's bosom; rather would I fill her arms with more fragrant roses. But a life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life, not worth the ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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