The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, Alphabetically Arranged by SubjectsBritkin, 1927 - 724 páginas |
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... means of obtaining it . - Colton . To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue ; but to be ambitious of titles , place , ceremonial respects , and civil ...
... means of obtaining it . - Colton . To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue ; but to be ambitious of titles , place , ceremonial respects , and civil ...
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... means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking , like a dull antiquarian , the minute and un- important parts of remote and fabulous times . Let blockheads read , what block- heads wrote . - Chesterfield . Antiquity ! —I like ...
... means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking , like a dull antiquarian , the minute and un- important parts of remote and fabulous times . Let blockheads read , what block- heads wrote . - Chesterfield . Antiquity ! —I like ...
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... means of appearances , to produce the illusion of a loftier reality . - Goethe . The mother of the useful art , is neces- sity ; that of the fine arts , is luxury.- The former have intellect for their father ; the latter , genius ...
... means of appearances , to produce the illusion of a loftier reality . - Goethe . The mother of the useful art , is neces- sity ; that of the fine arts , is luxury.- The former have intellect for their father ; the latter , genius ...
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... means to grow better is to be the worst there . - Quarles . No company is far preferable to bad , because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues , as disease is more contagious than health . -Colton . Choose the ...
... means to grow better is to be the worst there . - Quarles . No company is far preferable to bad , because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues , as disease is more contagious than health . -Colton . Choose the ...
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... means of believing , by inspiration , by reason , and by custom.- Christianity , which is the only rational system , admits none for its sons who do not believe according to inspiration .—— Pascal . A man may be a heretic in the truth ...
... means of believing , by inspiration , by reason , and by custom.- Christianity , which is the only rational system , admits none for its sons who do not believe according to inspiration .—— Pascal . A man may be a heretic in the truth ...
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