Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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... virtue , but a fact . - Tuckerman . Frozen by distance . Wordsworth . Short absence quickens love , long absence kills it . - Mirabeau . - We often wish most for our friends when they are absent . Even in married life love is not ...
... virtue , but a fact . - Tuckerman . Frozen by distance . Wordsworth . Short absence quickens love , long absence kills it . - Mirabeau . - We often wish most for our friends when they are absent . Even in married life love is not ...
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... virtue , but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice , for age whitens only the hair . J. Petit Senn . - Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart . After that age she has only forty winters . - Arsène Houssaye ...
... virtue , but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice , for age whitens only the hair . J. Petit Senn . - Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart . After that age she has only forty winters . - Arsène Houssaye ...
Side 11
... virtue of a family . — Aristotle . A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage ; but if he any way degenerate from his line , the least spot is visible on ermine . - Dryden . The happiest lot for a man , as far as ...
... virtue of a family . — Aristotle . A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage ; but if he any way degenerate from his line , the least spot is visible on ermine . - Dryden . The happiest lot for a man , as far as ...
Side 27
... 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 . - Leighton . The root of all benevolent actions is ...
... 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 . - Leighton . The root of all benevolent actions is ...
Side 29
... virtue but on his own side . Addison . The worst of mad men is a saint run mad . - Pope . Biography.— As in the case of painters , who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure , which may have some slight blemishes ...
... virtue but on his own side . Addison . The worst of mad men is a saint run mad . - Pope . Biography.— As in the case of painters , who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure , which may have some slight blemishes ...
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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