Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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... memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off . George Eliot . - Serene , and safe from passion's stormy rage , how calm they glide into the port of age ! Shenstone . Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions , that ...
... memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off . George Eliot . - Serene , and safe from passion's stormy rage , how calm they glide into the port of age ! Shenstone . Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions , that ...
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... memory , and to hover in a silvery transfiguration there , until the outward book is but a body , and its soul and spirit are flown to you , and possess your memory like a spirit . - Beecher . If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe ...
... memory , and to hover in a silvery transfiguration there , until the outward book is but a body , and its soul and spirit are flown to you , and possess your memory like a spirit . - Beecher . If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe ...
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... memory of man can fathom . - Feltham . I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity , and I determined to obtain it . — Jay . Be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed , the deeper they ...
... memory of man can fathom . - Feltham . I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity , and I determined to obtain it . — Jay . Be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed , the deeper they ...
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... memory of the writer or speaker , and presenting itself to his utterance at every turn . When we observe this , we call it a cant word or a cant phrase . - Paley . Caution . Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire , it cannot be amiss ...
... memory of the writer or speaker , and presenting itself to his utterance at every turn . When we observe this , we call it a cant word or a cant phrase . - Paley . Caution . Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire , it cannot be amiss ...
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... memories of outlived sorrow . - Eliot . - George Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real ... memory that can be touched to gentle issues . - George Eliot . The first duty towards children is to make them happy ...
... memories of outlived sorrow . - Eliot . - George Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real ... memory that can be touched to gentle issues . - George Eliot . The first duty towards children is to make them happy ...
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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