Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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... 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 away . Euripides . - The Grecian ladies counted their age from their ...
... 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 away . Euripides . - The Grecian ladies counted their age from their ...
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... 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 upon future ...
... 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 upon future ...
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... pass by their defects and take notice of their virtues ; and to speak or hear willingly of the latter ; for in this indeed you may be little less guilty than the evil speaker , in taking pleasure in evil , though you speak it not ...
... pass by their defects and take notice of their virtues ; and to speak or hear willingly of the latter ; for in this indeed you may be little less guilty than the evil speaker , in taking pleasure in evil , though you speak it not ...
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... pass over such blemishes altogether , nor yet to mark them too prominently . The one would spoil the beauty , and the other destroy the likeness of the picture . - Plutarch . Biographies of great , but especially of good men , are most ...
... pass over such blemishes altogether , nor yet to mark them too prominently . The one would spoil the beauty , and the other destroy the likeness of the picture . - Plutarch . Biographies of great , but especially of good men , are most ...
Side 32
... pass from itself , and to enter the 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 ...
... pass from itself , and to enter the 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 ...
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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