Golden thoughts from great authors, selected by A. CrowtherDavid Bryce & Son, 1883 - 127 pages |
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... observ- ance , that you o'er - step not the modesty of nature . Hamlet , Act 2 , Scene 3 . Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life . - Sir P. Sidney . Adversity . He that has never known adversity is but Our ...
... observ- ance , that you o'er - step not the modesty of nature . Hamlet , Act 2 , Scene 3 . Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life . - Sir P. Sidney . Adversity . He that has never known adversity is but Our ...
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Alice Crowther. Adversity . He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others , or with himself . Constant success shows us but one side of the world . - Colton , Lacon . Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our ...
Alice Crowther. Adversity . He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others , or with himself . Constant success shows us but one side of the world . - Colton , Lacon . Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our ...
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... For when disputes are wearied out , " Tis int'rest still resolves the doubt . -Butler . If the bells have any sides the clapper will find them.- Ben Jonson . Attention . I never knew any man cured of in-. Great Authors . 13.
... For when disputes are wearied out , " Tis int'rest still resolves the doubt . -Butler . If the bells have any sides the clapper will find them.- Ben Jonson . Attention . I never knew any man cured of in-. Great Authors . 13.
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Alice Crowther. Attention . I never knew any man cured of in- attention . - Swift . By attention ideas are registered in the memory . - Locke . In the power of fixing the attention , the most precious of the intellectual habits , mankind ...
Alice Crowther. Attention . I never knew any man cured of in- attention . - Swift . By attention ideas are registered in the memory . - Locke . In the power of fixing the attention , the most precious of the intellectual habits , mankind ...
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... Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to . The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him . - Drew . Rare almost as great poets - rarer , perhaps , than veritable saints and consummate ...
... Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to . The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him . - Drew . Rare almost as great poets - rarer , perhaps , than veritable saints and consummate ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison approaching death apt to imagine Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson Chesterfield choking.-Fuller Coleridge Collier conscience.-South console.-Colton custom will render cymbal difficulties and hardships Discretion doth due to mankind easy.-Tillotson Epictetus evil to mankind.-Swift Feltham follow innocent customs.-Dr forbidden fruit fortune free-minded and cheerfully freedom cannot release Goethe happy Hugh Blair innocence of life.-Sir Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Johnson kernel of forbidden L'Estrange Lacon leaves it empty.-Pope Leigh Hunt levity and cheerfulness levity is fre long lasting.-Lord Bacon love.-Bacon Marriage medicine cannot cure men's mind Mirth from company modesty open to levity passion patience ping around us.-Seneca power than nature quently a stranger respect due seldom fails sense signed by Providence soon reconciles sorrow stranger to cheerfulness survey of Nature's Swift Sydney Smith symptom of approaching tact talent tell thy dreams temper Thomas Browne thought understanding.-Dr universal as death vided to remove virtue Wakley Watts way.-Bentley wise you.-Pope
Popular passages
Page 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 7 - Quoth Hudibras, ' It is in vain (I see) to argue 'gainst the grain, Or, like the stars, incline men to What they're averse themselves to do : For when disputes are...
Page 44 - It is useful in all places, and at all times ; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world ; it is useful in society, for it shows him his way through the world.
Page 33 - Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
Page 23 - The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved, kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.
Page 42 - Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, — without a thought of fame.
Page 13 - It is another's fault if he be ungrateful ; but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige many that are not so.
Page 33 - He that never changed any of his opinions never corrected any of his mistakes ; and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons mistakes in others.
Page 11 - are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things; compose our cares and our passions; and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.