Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 sider |
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... somewhat from the deluge of time . BACON . I would fain coin wisdom , - mould it , I mean , into max- ims , proverbs , sentences , that can easily be retained and transmitted . JOUBERT . i I PREFACE . A verse may find him whom.
... somewhat from the deluge of time . BACON . I would fain coin wisdom , - mould it , I mean , into max- ims , proverbs , sentences , that can easily be retained and transmitted . JOUBERT . i I PREFACE . A verse may find him whom.
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... Bacon . None are so desolate but something dear , dearer than self , possesses or possess'd . — Byron . Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman , who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald ...
... Bacon . None are so desolate but something dear , dearer than self , possesses or possess'd . — Byron . Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman , who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald ...
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... Bacon . - Exclusively of the abstract sciences , the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms , and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism . Coleridge . - Proverbs are potted wisdom . - Charles ...
... Bacon . - Exclusively of the abstract sciences , the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms , and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism . Coleridge . - Proverbs are potted wisdom . - Charles ...
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... Bacon . gun- Our armor all is strong , our cause the best ; then 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 ...
... Bacon . gun- Our armor all is strong , our cause the best ; then 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 ...
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... Bacon . - Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company . In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure ; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit . To be the best in the company is the way to grow ...
... Bacon . - Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company . In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure ; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit . To be the best in the company is the way to grow ...
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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 George Herbert George MacDonald 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 Richter ruin Ruskin Samuel Smiles sense Shake Shakespeare Smiles sorrow soul speare sweet Sydney Smith tears things Thoreau thou thought tion true truth vice virtue Voltaire wisdom wise woman words