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... friends . Outward actions can never give a just estimate of us , since there are many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in action . Addison . Grass . 4 A fair exchange is no robbery . 5 A 8 January .
... friends . Outward actions can never give a just estimate of us , since there are many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in action . Addison . Grass . 4 A fair exchange is no robbery . 5 A 8 January .
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... man mortified with the very praise he re- ceives , if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought . - Addison . An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows . 13 A heavy purse makes a light heart . 14 14 January .
... man mortified with the very praise he re- ceives , if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought . - Addison . An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows . 13 A heavy purse makes a light heart . 14 14 January .
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... Addison . An oyster may be crossed in love . 17 A little good is soon spent . They are never alone that are ac- companied with noble thought . — Sir Philip Sidney . Assiduity and labour produce glory and fame . Bearded Wheat Grass . 18 ...
... Addison . An oyster may be crossed in love . 17 A little good is soon spent . They are never alone that are ac- companied with noble thought . — Sir Philip Sidney . Assiduity and labour produce glory and fame . Bearded Wheat Grass . 18 ...
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... Addison . Better to do well late than never . Floating Sweet Grass . 8 A winking cat is not always blind . Though it be honest , it is never good to bring bad news ; ill tidings tell themselves . - Ant . and Cleo . , Act 2 , Scene 5 ...
... Addison . Better to do well late than never . Floating Sweet Grass . 8 A winking cat is not always blind . Though it be honest , it is never good to bring bad news ; ill tidings tell themselves . - Ant . and Cleo . , Act 2 , Scene 5 ...
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... Addison . Consideration is due to all things . 2 By wisdom , peace ; by peace , plenty . 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 ...
... Addison . Consideration is due to all things . 2 By wisdom , peace ; by peace , plenty . 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 ...
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Page 156 - 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 42 - 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 152 - 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 214 - 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 164 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Page 14 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 86 - 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 120 - 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
Page 142 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
Page 22 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.