Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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... kind of cultivation , but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities . - Schopenhaufer . Words must be fitted to a man's mouth , — ' t was well said of the fellow that was to make a speech . for my Lord ...
... kind of cultivation , but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities . - Schopenhaufer . Words must be fitted to a man's mouth , — ' t was well said of the fellow that was to make a speech . for my Lord ...
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... kind of distress , to have recourse to human consolation . - Thomas à Kempis . - Adversity , like winter weather , is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish . Arrowsmith . - Adversity ...
... kind of distress , to have recourse to human consolation . - Thomas à Kempis . - Adversity , like winter weather , is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish . Arrowsmith . - Adversity ...
Side 23
... kind of Racine . It is for the same reason that La Fontaine is held in such high esteem among the French . It is not for his worth as a poet , but for the greatness of his character which obtrudes in his writings . Goethe . - Choose an ...
... kind of Racine . It is for the same reason that La Fontaine is held in such high esteem among the French . It is not for his worth as a poet , but for the greatness of his character which obtrudes in his writings . Goethe . - Choose an ...
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... kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and ten- derness on earth , it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our ben- efit and use ; it would not be for our benefit and ...
... kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and ten- derness on earth , it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our ben- efit and use ; it would not be for our benefit and ...
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... kind of prop- erty which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated . George Eliot . The pious vanity of man makes him adore his own qualities under the pretense of worshiping those of God . - Bulwer - Lytton . Confidence . Confidence ...
... kind of prop- erty which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated . George Eliot . The pious vanity of man makes him adore his own qualities under the pretense of worshiping those of God . - Bulwer - Lytton . Confidence . Confidence ...
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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