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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Tryon Edwards. It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.—Sharpe. We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of ...
Tryon Edwards. It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.—Sharpe. We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of ...
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... truth.—Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.—Joubert. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare of abstruse sentiment, as in the ...
... truth.—Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.—Joubert. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare of abstruse sentiment, as in the ...
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... truth; but either should sotus upon testing ourselves.—Whately. When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!—Colton, Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the ...
... truth; but either should sotus upon testing ourselves.—Whately. When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!—Colton, Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the ...
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... truth discourtesy.—Herbert In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.—Prior. Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.—Anacharsis. He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that ...
... truth discourtesy.—Herbert In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.—Prior. Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.—Anacharsis. He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that ...
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... truth, but the idealized image of a truth.—Bulwer. The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.—Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.—Joubert. Art does not imitate nature, but founds ...
... truth, but the idealized image of a truth.—Bulwer. The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.—Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.—Joubert. Art does not imitate nature, but founds ...
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