Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 sider |
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Side 2
... speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as men are removed from brutes , action will have the less influence upon them . Johnson . - Heaven ne'er helps the man who will ...
... speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as men are removed from brutes , action will have the less influence upon them . Johnson . - Heaven ne'er helps the man who will ...
Side 4
... speak it profanely , that , neither having the accent of Christians , nor the gait of Christian , pagan , or man , have so strutted and bellowed , that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men , and not made them well ...
... speak it profanely , that , neither having the accent of Christians , nor the gait of Christian , pagan , or man , have so strutted and bellowed , that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men , and not made them well ...
Side 27
... 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 filial piety and ...
... 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 filial piety and ...
Side 79
... speak amiss : man is frail , and prone to evil , and therefore may soon fail in words . Jeremy Taylor . - Physical evils destroy themselves , or they destroy us . Rousseau . - " One soweth , and another reapeth , " is a verity that ...
... speak amiss : man is frail , and prone to evil , and therefore may soon fail in words . Jeremy Taylor . - Physical evils destroy themselves , or they destroy us . Rousseau . - " One soweth , and another reapeth , " is a verity that ...
Side 90
... speak that which I am commanded by the King of kings , and dare not , on my soul , flatter any one on the face of all the earth . - John Knox . Flowers . ― Luther always kept a flower in a glass on his writing - table ; and when he was ...
... speak that which I am commanded by the King of kings , and dare not , on my soul , flatter any one on the face of all the earth . - John Knox . Flowers . ― Luther always kept a flower in a glass on his writing - table ; and when he was ...
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