Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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... reason , like the careful ant , draws laboriously together , the wind of accident collects in one brief moment . Schiller . - What men call accident is God's own part . - P. J. Bailey . Acquirements . Every noble acquisition is attended ...
... reason , like the careful ant , draws laboriously together , the wind of accident collects in one brief moment . Schiller . - What men call accident is God's own part . - P. J. Bailey . Acquirements . Every noble acquisition is attended ...
Side 18
... reason is often good , not because it is conclu- sive , but because it is dramatic , - because it has the stamp of him who urges it , and is drawn from his own resources . For there are arguments ex homine as well as ad hominem ...
... reason is often good , not because it is conclu- sive , but because it is dramatic , - because it has the stamp of him who urges it , and is drawn from his own resources . For there are arguments ex homine as well as ad hominem ...
Side 19
... reason wills our hearts should be as good . Shake- speare . ― Art.- Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head ; but if passion carries them , it will be well done : passion knows more than art . — Baron . - It is a great ...
... reason wills our hearts should be as good . Shake- speare . ― Art.- Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head ; but if passion carries them , it will be well done : passion knows more than art . — Baron . - It is a great ...
Side 22
... Reasons of things are rather to be taken by weight than tale . — Jeremy Collier . The world is ruled by the subordinates , not by their chiefs.- Charles Buxton . Authors . Authors may be divided into falling stars , ASS AUT 22.
... Reasons of things are rather to be taken by weight than tale . — Jeremy Collier . The world is ruled by the subordinates , not by their chiefs.- Charles Buxton . Authors . Authors may be divided into falling stars , ASS AUT 22.
Side 23
... 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 author as you choose a friend ...
... 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 author as you choose a friend ...
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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