A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and ModernCassell publishing Company, 1891 - Počet stran: 644 |
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... mean approbation.- Colton . Advice is like snow ; the softer it falls , the longer it dwells upon , and the deeper it ... means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputa- tion . - Rochefoucauld . No man is so foolish but he ...
... mean approbation.- Colton . Advice is like snow ; the softer it falls , the longer it dwells upon , and the deeper it ... means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputa- tion . - Rochefoucauld . No man is so foolish but he ...
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... means of weakness and debility : therefore my age is as a lusty winter , frosty but kindly . - Shakespeare . When men grow virtuous in their old age , they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings . - Swift . Age ...
... means of weakness and debility : therefore my age is as a lusty winter , frosty but kindly . - Shakespeare . When men grow virtuous in their old age , they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings . - Swift . Age ...
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... means of obtain- ing it .-- Colton . To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue but to be ambitious of titles , place , cere- monial respects , and ...
... means of obtain- ing it .-- Colton . To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue but to be ambitious of titles , place , cere- monial respects , and ...
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... means of appearances , to produce the illu- sion of a loftier reality . - Goethe . The mother of the useful art , is necessity ; that of the fine arts , is luxury . - The former have intellect for their father ; the latter , genius ...
... means of appearances , to produce the illu- sion of a loftier reality . - Goethe . The mother of the useful art , is necessity ; that of the fine arts , is luxury . - The former have intellect for their father ; the latter , genius ...
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... means to grow better is to be the worst there.— Quarles . No company is far preferable to bad , because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues , as disease is more contagious than health . - Colton . Choose the ...
... means to grow better is to be the worst there.— Quarles . No company is far preferable to bad , because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues , as disease is more contagious than health . - Colton . Choose the ...
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