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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... evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.—Plutarch. All our actions take their hue from the ...
... evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.—Plutarch. All our actions take their hue from the ...
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... evil only by the corruptions of those it was sent to preserve and bless.—Mordaunt. Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.—S. W. Beecher. If there is any thing that keeps the ...
... evil only by the corruptions of those it was sent to preserve and bless.—Mordaunt. Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.—S. W. Beecher. If there is any thing that keeps the ...
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... evil shadow of aspiration.—G. Macdonald. Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.—Southern. Ambition is not a vice of little people.—Montaigne. Ambition is not a ...
... evil shadow of aspiration.—G. Macdonald. Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.—Southern. Ambition is not a vice of little people.—Montaigne. Ambition is not a ...
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... evil.—Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.—Tupper. To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.—Goethe. We part more easily with what we possess than with our ...
... evil.—Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.—Tupper. To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.—Goethe. We part more easily with what we possess than with our ...
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... evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.—Cato. To seem disturbed at calumny, is the way to make it believed, and stabbing your defamer, will not prove you innocent.—Live an exemplary life, and then your good ...
... evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.—Cato. To seem disturbed at calumny, is the way to make it believed, and stabbing your defamer, will not prove you innocent.—Live an exemplary life, and then your good ...
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