Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 sider |
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Side 6
... young trees root the faster for shaking ; gold looks brighter for scouring ; juniper smells sweet- est in the fire ; the palm - tree proves the better for pressing ; chamomile , the more you tread it , the more you spread it . Such is ...
... young trees root the faster for shaking ; gold looks brighter for scouring ; juniper smells sweet- est in the fire ; the palm - tree proves the better for pressing ; chamomile , the more you tread it , the more you spread it . Such is ...
Side 14
... Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis , and employ it . - Bruyère . Antithesis may be the blossom of wit , but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk , and truth the root . Colton . Apology ...
... Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis , and employ it . - Bruyère . Antithesis may be the blossom of wit , but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk , and truth the root . Colton . Apology ...
Side 20
... young maiden's bosom ; rather would I fill her arms with more fragrant roses . a life merely of pleasure , or chiefly of pleasure , is always a poor and worthless life , not worth the liv- ing ; always unsatisfactory in its course ...
... young maiden's bosom ; rather would I fill her arms with more fragrant roses . a life merely of pleasure , or chiefly of pleasure , is always a poor and worthless life , not worth the liv- ing ; always unsatisfactory in its course ...
Side 30
... Young . Reflect upon your present blessings , of which every man has many : not on your past misfortunes , of which all men have some . Charles Dickens . - Blush . The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame . Mrs. Balfour . I ...
... Young . Reflect upon your present blessings , of which every man has many : not on your past misfortunes , of which all men have some . Charles Dickens . - Blush . The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame . Mrs. Balfour . I ...
Side 57
... death gives us a long lease of life , it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved . Ma- dame Necker . - Man makes a death which nature never made . Young . -- The golden ripple on the wall came back again , DEA DEA 57.
... death gives us a long lease of life , it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved . Ma- dame Necker . - Man makes a death which nature never made . Young . -- The golden ripple on the wall came back again , DEA DEA 57.
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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