The Querist's Birthday Book, Language of Flowers, and Confession Album, with Engravings of Natural Grasses, and Four Coloured Illustrations of the SeasonsDavid Bryce., 1882 - 123 pages |
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... less injuri- ous than a weak reply . — Colton , Lacon . At thirty man suspects himself a fool , at forty knows it and reforms his plan . All are not thieves that dogs bark at . All are not hunters that blow the horn . A 3 January .
... less injuri- ous than a weak reply . — Colton , Lacon . At thirty man suspects himself a fool , at forty knows it and reforms his plan . All are not thieves that dogs bark at . All are not hunters that blow the horn . A 3 January .
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... fool . Affect not little shifts and subter- fuges to avoid the force of an argument . -Dr . T. Watts . Banish the ... fool is the worst of fools . An old dog barks not in vain . As a 4 January .
... fool . Affect not little shifts and subter- fuges to avoid the force of an argument . -Dr . T. Watts . Banish the ... fool is the worst of fools . An old dog barks not in vain . As a 4 January .
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... fool can bet . Reading maketh a full man , con- ference a ready man , and writing an exact man . - Francis Bacon . Begin your web properly , and God will supply you with thread . Apt to promise , apt to forget . The smallest act of ...
... fool can bet . Reading maketh a full man , con- ference a ready man , and writing an exact man . - Francis Bacon . Begin your web properly , and God will supply you with thread . Apt to promise , apt to forget . The smallest act of ...
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... less injuri- ous than a weak reply . - Colton , Lacon . At thirty man suspects himself a fool , at forty knows it and reforms his plan . All are not thieves that dogs bark at . All are not hunters that blow the horn . 19 3 January .
... less injuri- ous than a weak reply . - Colton , Lacon . At thirty man suspects himself a fool , at forty knows it and reforms his plan . All are not thieves that dogs bark at . All are not hunters that blow the horn . 19 3 January .
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... . Be always at leisure to do good . 21 Anger and haste hinder good counsel . 22 Anger has made many a man a fool . 23 An oak is not felled by one blow . 24 An old fool is the worst of fools . An old dog barks not in vain . As a January .
... . Be always at leisure to do good . 21 Anger and haste hinder good counsel . 22 Anger has made many a man a fool . 23 An oak is not felled by one blow . 24 An old fool is the worst of fools . An old dog barks not in vain . As a January .
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admire age next birth-day Amaranth beauty believe in love believe in marrying Bent Grass briefly your ideal Cat's-tail Grass Cock's-foot coloured eyes concealing her age CONFESSION ALBUM consider the greatest Creeping Soft Grass Crested Dog's-tail Define briefly esteem evil eyes and hair False Brome favourite amusement favourite hero favourite historical hero favourite novelist favourite piece favourite proverb favourite quotation favourite study fool friends ful thing greatest earthly happiness greatest living orator greatest misery Hair Grass heart hero in fiction ideal woman Jasmine justified in concealing lady justified marrying for love Melic Grass Michelian mind Misanthropy musical composer Name your pet never novelist and poet Oat Grass opinion Ox Eye pet animal pet colour pet flower piece of poetry Pink pop the question prerogative to pop Quaking Grass Reed Canary Grass Rose Saint John's Wort speak Sweet thing in nature thou thoughts Tree virtue White woman marry
Popular passages
Page 30 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 10 - Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct...
Page 30 - 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 5 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 43 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll ; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.
Page 31 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Page 5 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 19 - Marriage is the best state for man in general ; and every man is a worse man, in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Page 23 - Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
Page 23 - And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others