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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... spirit a distracted judgment . The muses starve in a cook's shop and a lawyer's study . — Quarles . To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence , which if not a virtue , is the groundwork of a virtue.- Johnson . It is ...
... spirit a distracted judgment . The muses starve in a cook's shop and a lawyer's study . — Quarles . To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence , which if not a virtue , is the groundwork of a virtue.- Johnson . It is ...
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... spirit ap- pears greatest in distress ; and then be- comes more bright and conspicuous.- Plutarch . In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us . - Rochefoucauld . Prosperity is too apt to ...
... spirit ap- pears greatest in distress ; and then be- comes more bright and conspicuous.- Plutarch . In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us . - Rochefoucauld . Prosperity is too apt to ...
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... spirit , an attempted aristocracy . Among the masses , even in revolu- tions , aristocracy must ever exist . - De- stroy it in the nobility , and it becomes centred in the rich and powerful Houses of Commons . - Pull them down , and it ...
... spirit , an attempted aristocracy . Among the masses , even in revolu- tions , aristocracy must ever exist . - De- stroy it in the nobility , and it becomes centred in the rich and powerful Houses of Commons . - Pull them down , and it ...
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... spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet . - Schiller . In the art of design , color is to form what verse is to prose , a more harmoni- ous and luminous vehicle of thought.- Mrs. Jameson . Very sacred is the vocation of the ...
... spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet . - Schiller . In the art of design , color is to form what verse is to prose , a more harmoni- ous and luminous vehicle of thought.- Mrs. Jameson . Very sacred is the vocation of the ...
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... spirit of immortality which is his portion . - Southey . ' Tis not what man does which exalts him , but what man would do ! -Brown- ing . There is not a heart but has its mo- ments of longing , yearning for something better , nobler ...
... spirit of immortality which is his portion . - Southey . ' Tis not what man does which exalts him , but what man would do ! -Brown- ing . There is not a heart but has its mo- ments of longing , yearning for something better , nobler ...
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