The New Dictionary of ThoughtsRavenio Books, 2015 M01 19 A cyclopedia of quotations from the best authors of the world, both ancient and modern, alphabetically arranged by subjects. |
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... desires to live long, but no one would be old.—Swift. Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have ... desire of living.— Goldsmith. Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age ...
... desires to live long, but no one would be old.—Swift. Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have ... desire of living.— Goldsmith. Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age ...
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... desire him to consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession, and turned builder.—Cowley. In a moral point of view, the life of the agriculturist is the most pure and holy of any class of men; pure, because it is the most ...
... desire him to consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession, and turned builder.—Cowley. In a moral point of view, the life of the agriculturist is the most pure and holy of any class of men; pure, because it is the most ...
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... desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.—Fielding. To be amiable is most certainly a duty ...
... desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.—Fielding. To be amiable is most certainly a duty ...
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... desire honor only because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.—Chrysostom. Philosophy does not regard pedigree.—She did not receive Plato as a noble, but made him so.—Seneca. I am no herald to inquire after ...
... desire honor only because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.—Chrysostom. Philosophy does not regard pedigree.—She did not receive Plato as a noble, but made him so.—Seneca. I am no herald to inquire after ...
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... desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.— Quarles. There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.—George Eliot ...
... desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.— Quarles. There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.—George Eliot ...
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