Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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Side 7
... Dryden . Ye old men , brief is the space of life allotted to you ; pass it as pleasantly as ye can , not grieving from morning till eve . Since time knows not how to preserve our hopes , but , attentive to its own con- cerns , flies ...
... Dryden . Ye old men , brief is the space of life allotted to you ; pass it as pleasantly as ye can , not grieving from morning till eve . Since time knows not how to preserve our hopes , but , attentive to its own con- cerns , flies ...
Side 8
... Dryden . - Old age adds to the respect due to virtue , but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice , for age whitens only the hair . J. Petit Senn . - Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart . After that age ...
... Dryden . - Old age adds to the respect due to virtue , but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice , for age whitens only the hair . J. Petit Senn . - Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart . After that age ...
Side 10
... Dryden . Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration . — George Mac Donald . Think not ambition wise , because ' t is brave.— Sir W. Davenant . Soar not too high to fall , but stoop to rise . — Mas- singer . - America . Child of the ...
... Dryden . Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration . — George Mac Donald . Think not ambition wise , because ' t is brave.— Sir W. Davenant . Soar not too high to fall , but stoop to rise . — Mas- singer . - America . Child of the ...
Side 11
... . — Aristotle . A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage ; but if he any way degenerate from his line , the least spot is visible on ermine . - Dryden . The happiest lot for a man , as far as AMU ANC 11.
... . — Aristotle . A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage ; but if he any way degenerate from his line , the least spot is visible on ermine . - Dryden . The happiest lot for a man , as far as AMU ANC 11.
Side 12
... Dryden . Though the knowledge they have left us be worth our study , yet they exhausted not all its treasures ; they left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after - ages . Locke . - Angels . In old days there were angels who ...
... Dryden . Though the knowledge they have left us be worth our study , yet they exhausted not all its treasures ; they left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after - ages . Locke . - Angels . In old days there were angels who ...
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action Addison Alfred de Musset Arsène Houssaye Bacon beautiful Beecher better Bulwer-Lytton Burke Byron Carlyle Chapin Charles Buxton Coleridge Colton conscience death divine Douglas Jerrold Dryden earth Emerson everything evil eyes fear feel Feltham flowers fools fortune friends genius George Eliot give glory Goethe gold Goldsmith hand happiness hath heart heaven Heinrich Heine honor hope human Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Johnson Joubert kind knowledge labor light live look Macaulay Madame Swetchine man's mankind Mazzini Milton mind Molière Montaigne moral nature ness never noble pain passions Petit Senn pleasure poet poetry Pope reason religion riches Richter ruin Ruskin Samuel Smiles sense Shake Shakespeare Smiles sorrow soul speare sweet Sydney Smith tears temper things Thoreau thou thought tion true truth vice Victor Hugo virtue Voltaire wisdom wise woman words