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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... person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.-O. W. Holmes . Old men's eyes are like old men's memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off . - George Eliot . No wise man ever wished ...
... person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.-O. W. Holmes . Old men's eyes are like old men's memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off . - George Eliot . No wise man ever wished ...
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... person himself , under the appearance of principle , it is the most incurable and inflexible of pas- sions . - Hume . The slave has but one master , the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the ...
... person himself , under the appearance of principle , it is the most incurable and inflexible of pas- sions . - Hume . The slave has but one master , the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the ...
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... person ever made an apol- ogy . - Emerson . APOTHEGMS .- ( See " PROVERBS . " ) Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guid- ance of the present . - Tryon Edwards . The short sayings of wise and good men ...
... person ever made an apol- ogy . - Emerson . APOTHEGMS .- ( See " PROVERBS . " ) Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guid- ance of the present . - Tryon Edwards . The short sayings of wise and good men ...
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... person is his work . - De Sales . Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.- Colton . We should allow others ' excellences , to preserve a modest opinion of our ...
... person is his work . - De Sales . Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.- Colton . We should allow others ' excellences , to preserve a modest opinion of our ...
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... person , or a beauteous face are in vain without the grace of deportment.- Churchill . B BABBLERS .— ( See " GOSSIP . " ) They always talk who never think.— Prior . Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with ...
... person , or a beauteous face are in vain without the grace of deportment.- Churchill . B BABBLERS .— ( See " GOSSIP . " ) They always talk who never think.— Prior . Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with ...
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