Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 sider |
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Side 6
... Smith . Affectation is certain deformity . Blair . Affection.- None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch , but love and envy . Bacon . None are so desolate but something dear , dearer than self , possesses or ...
... Smith . Affectation is certain deformity . Blair . Affection.- None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch , but love and envy . Bacon . None are so desolate but something dear , dearer than self , possesses or ...
Side 7
... smith , shapes as it smites . Bovée . Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble - minded but confirm the obduracy of the vile . The same furnace that hardens clay liquefies gold ; and in the strong manifestations of ...
... smith , shapes as it smites . Bovée . Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble - minded but confirm the obduracy of the vile . The same furnace that hardens clay liquefies gold ; and in the strong manifestations of ...
Side 8
... smith . - Let us respect gray hairs , especially our own . J. Petit Senn . There are two things which grow stronger in the breast of man , in proportion as he advances in years : the love of country and religion . Let them be never so ...
... smith . - Let us respect gray hairs , especially our own . J. Petit Senn . There are two things which grow stronger in the breast of man , in proportion as he advances in years : the love of country and religion . Let them be never so ...
Side 13
... Smith . He that reads Plutarch shall find that angling was not contemptible in the days of Mark Antony and Cleopatra . - Izaak Walton . Idle time not idly spent . - Sir Henry Wotton . To see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver ...
... Smith . He that reads Plutarch shall find that angling was not contemptible in the days of Mark Antony and Cleopatra . - Izaak Walton . Idle time not idly spent . - Sir Henry Wotton . To see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver ...
Side 27
... smith . - Benevolence . There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being , re- plete with benevolence , meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Crea- tor by doing most good to his ...
... smith . - Benevolence . There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being , re- plete with benevolence , meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Crea- tor by doing most good to his ...
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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