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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... noble acquisition is attended with Its risks: he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.—Metastasio. An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else ...
... noble acquisition is attended with Its risks: he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.—Metastasio. An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else ...
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... noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.—Plutarch. All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light.—W. T. Bacon. Life was not given for indolent contemplation and ...
... noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.—Plutarch. All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light.—W. T. Bacon. Life was not given for indolent contemplation and ...
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... noble, spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes morn 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 prevent ...
... noble, spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes morn 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 prevent ...
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... noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.—Colton. The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices.—E. Shepard. There is such a difference between ...
... noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.—Colton. The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices.—E. Shepard. There is such a difference between ...
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... noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.—The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.—E. W. Beecher ...
... noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.—The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.—E. W. Beecher ...
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