Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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Side 3
... never give a just estimate of us , since there are many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in actions . - Addison .. Mark this well , ye proud men of action ! Ye are ,. after all , nothing but unconscious ...
... never give a just estimate of us , since there are many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in actions . - Addison .. Mark this well , ye proud men of action ! Ye are ,. after all , nothing but unconscious ...
Side 5
... never think it necessary , in any 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 ...
... never think it necessary , in any 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 ...
Side 8
... never so much forgotten in youth , they sooner or later pre- sent themselves to us arrayed in all their charms , and excite in the recesses of our hearts an attach- ment justly due to their beauty . - Chateaubriand . Agitation ...
... never so much forgotten in youth , they sooner or later pre- sent themselves to us arrayed in all their charms , and excite in the recesses of our hearts an attach- ment justly due to their beauty . - Chateaubriand . Agitation ...
Side 9
... never straight , whether she go , creep , or lie still ; only when she is dead , she is straight enough . Luther . - - Ambition . It was not till after the terrible passage of the bridge of Lodi that the idea entered my mind that I ...
... never straight , whether she go , creep , or lie still ; only when she is dead , she is straight enough . Luther . - - Ambition . It was not till after the terrible passage of the bridge of Lodi that the idea entered my mind that I ...
Side 13
... never work better than when I am inspired by anger ; when I am angry I can write , pray , and preach well ; for , then my whole temperament is quickened , my understanding sharpened , and all mundane vexations and temptations depart ...
... never work better than when I am inspired by anger ; when I am angry I can write , pray , and preach well ; for , then my whole temperament is quickened , my understanding sharpened , and all mundane vexations and temptations depart ...
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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