Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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Side 8
... passion's stormy rage , how calm they glide into the port of age ! Shenstone . Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions , that we may disengage from the world by degrees . -Jeremy Collier . Age oppresses by the same degrees ...
... passion's stormy rage , how calm they glide into the port of age ! Shenstone . Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions , that we may disengage from the world by degrees . -Jeremy Collier . Age oppresses by the same degrees ...
Side 10
... passions . — Hume . An ardent thirst of honor ; a soul unsatisfied with all it has done , and an unextinguished desire of doing more . Dryden . Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration . — George Mac Donald . Think not ambition ...
... passions . — Hume . An ardent thirst of honor ; a soul unsatisfied with all it has done , and an unextinguished desire of doing more . Dryden . Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration . — George Mac Donald . Think not ambition ...
Side 19
... passion carries them , it will be well done : passion knows more than art . — Baron . - It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for ...
... passion carries them , it will be well done : passion knows more than art . — Baron . - It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for ...
Side 20
... passion too many . I would steal no violet from the young maiden's bosom ; rather would I fill her arms with more fragrant roses . But a life merely of pleasure , or chiefly of pleasure , is always a poor and worthless life , not worth ...
... passion too many . I would steal no violet from the young maiden's bosom ; rather would I fill her arms with more fragrant roses . But a life merely of pleasure , or chiefly of pleasure , is always a poor and worthless life , not worth ...
Side 24
... passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleas- ure , and the second devoted to ambition . He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth , lulls his age with the milder business of saving it . - John ...
... passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleas- ure , and the second devoted to ambition . He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth , lulls his age with the milder business of saving it . - John ...
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