Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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Side 13
... hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition . In the first instance , we cook the dish to our own appetite ; in the latter , nature cooks it for us . — Goldsmith . We are apt to rely ...
... hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition . In the first instance , we cook the dish to our own appetite ; in the latter , nature cooks it for us . — Goldsmith . We are apt to rely ...
Side 16
... hour . - Brillat Savarin . Appreciation.- Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man . Colton . It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while we ...
... hour . - Brillat Savarin . Appreciation.- Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man . Colton . It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while we ...
Side 31
... hour . - Burke . There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses ; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than a way of braying . - L'Estrange . Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them ...
... hour . - Burke . There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses ; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than a way of braying . - L'Estrange . Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them ...
Side 70
... hour at night , is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life . Doddridge . - Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed ...
... hour at night , is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life . Doddridge . - Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed ...
Side 85
... hour of pleasure and an hour of pain are alike only on the dial in their numerical arrange- Outside the dial they lie sixty times.- Méry . ment . Fame . Fame , as a river , is narrowest where it is bred , and broadest afar off ; so ...
... hour of pleasure and an hour of pain are alike only on the dial in their numerical arrange- Outside the dial they lie sixty times.- Méry . ment . Fame . Fame , as a river , is narrowest where it is bred , and broadest afar off ; so ...
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