Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 sider |
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Maturin Murray Ballou. PEARLS OF THOUGHT . A. Ability . - Natural abilities can almost compen- sate for the want of every kind of cultivation , but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities . Schopenhaufer ...
Maturin Murray Ballou. PEARLS OF THOUGHT . A. Ability . - Natural abilities can almost compen- sate for the want of every kind of cultivation , but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities . Schopenhaufer ...
Side 2
... nature , and either curb the devil , or throw him out with wondrous potency.— Shakespeare . Abuse . - Abuse is not so dangerous when there is no vehicle of wit or delicacy , no subtle convey- ance . The difference between coarse and ...
... nature , and either curb the devil , or throw him out with wondrous potency.— Shakespeare . Abuse . - Abuse is not so dangerous when there is no vehicle of wit or delicacy , no subtle convey- ance . The difference between coarse and ...
Side 4
... Nature's journeymen had made men , and not made them well , they imitated human- ity so abominably ! Shakespeare . An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor . For an actor to represent a Greek hero it is imperative he ...
... Nature's journeymen had made men , and not made them well , they imitated human- ity so abominably ! Shakespeare . An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor . For an actor to represent a Greek hero it is imperative he ...
Side 7
... nature . In happiness we are shallow , and deem others so . Charles Buxton . Affliction , like the iron - smith , shapes as it smites . Bovée . Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble - minded but confirm the ...
... nature . In happiness we are shallow , and deem others so . Charles Buxton . Affliction , like the iron - smith , shapes as it smites . Bovée . Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble - minded but confirm the ...
Side 9
... nature are the materials of art . Gibbon . - Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own . —Johnson . Let the farmer for evermore be honored in his call- ing , for they who labor in the earth ...
... nature are the materials of art . Gibbon . - Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own . —Johnson . Let the farmer for evermore be honored in his call- ing , for they who labor in the earth ...
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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