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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Strana 5
... things he does not know ; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode ADMIRATION . of hiding his ignorance , than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his cru- dition . - Collon . There is a certain artificial polish and ...
... things he does not know ; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode ADMIRATION . of hiding his ignorance , than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his cru- dition . - Collon . There is a certain artificial polish and ...
Strana 6
... things of prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired . - Seneca . Adversity , sage useful guest , severe in- structor , but the best ; it is from thee alone we know justly to value things ...
... things of prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired . - Seneca . Adversity , sage useful guest , severe in- structor , but the best ; it is from thee alone we know justly to value things ...
Strana 15
... thing in life may hope to achieve it ; but he who seeks all things , wherever he goes , only reaps , from the hopes ... things it is unattainable ; however , they who aim at it , and persevere , will come much nearer to it , than those ...
... thing in life may hope to achieve it ; but he who seeks all things , wherever he goes , only reaps , from the hopes ... things it is unattainable ; however , they who aim at it , and persevere , will come much nearer to it , than those ...
Strana 21
... things evil.— H. W. Beecher . There is not in nature , a thing that makes man so deformed , so beastly , as doth intem- perate anger . - John Webster . To be angry about trifles is mean and childish ; to rage and be furious is brutish ...
... things evil.— H. W. Beecher . There is not in nature , a thing that makes man so deformed , so beastly , as doth intem- perate anger . - John Webster . To be angry about trifles is mean and childish ; to rage and be furious is brutish ...
Strana 22
... things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.— South . The worst evils are those that never arrive . Few enterprises of great labor ...
... things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.— South . The worst evils are those that never arrive . Few enterprises of great labor ...
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