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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... wise . My errors , I hope , are only those of charity to mankind and such as my own charity has caused me to commit , that of others may more easily excuse . -Dryden . Before you attempt , consider what you can perform . A wonder lasts ...
... wise . My errors , I hope , are only those of charity to mankind and such as my own charity has caused me to commit , that of others may more easily excuse . -Dryden . Before you attempt , consider what you can perform . A wonder lasts ...
Page 5
... wise . My errors , I hope , are only those of charity to mankind and such as my own charity has caused me to commit , that of others may more easily excuse . -Dryden . Before you attempt , consider what you can perform . A wonder lasts ...
... wise . My errors , I hope , are only those of charity to mankind and such as my own charity has caused me to commit , that of others may more easily excuse . -Dryden . Before you attempt , consider what you can perform . A wonder lasts ...
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... wise with speed ; a fool at forty is a fool indeed . A winking cat is not always blind . Contentment is a pearl of great price , and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise man and a happy purchase . 7 ...
... wise with speed ; a fool at forty is a fool indeed . A winking cat is not always blind . Contentment is a pearl of great price , and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise man and a happy purchase . 7 ...
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... wise than wealthy . Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation , they do not take in any- thing for their own use , but merely to pass it to another . - Sir R. Steele . Common sense is the growth of all centuries . Bought wit is ...
... wise than wealthy . Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation , they do not take in any- thing for their own use , but merely to pass it to another . - Sir R. Steele . Common sense is the growth of all centuries . Bought wit is ...
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... wise in your own conceit . Begin as you mean to go on . Better late than never . A body may as well lay too little as too much on a dream , but the less we heed them the better . - L'Estrange . Confine your tongue lest it confine you ...
... wise in your own conceit . Begin as you mean to go on . Better late than never . A body may as well lay too little as too much on a dream , but the less we heed them the better . - L'Estrange . Confine your tongue lest it confine you ...
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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 Guelder Rose Hair Grass heart hero in fiction ideal woman Jasmine justified in concealing lady justified marrying for love Melic Grass Michelian mind 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 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