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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... virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.—Johnson. It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.—W. Humboldt. Absurdities. There is nothing so ...
... virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.—Johnson. It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.—W. Humboldt. Absurdities. There is nothing so ...
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... virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.—Atterbury. As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.—Burton. Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are ...
... virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.—Atterbury. As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.—Burton. Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are ...
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... virtue by affliction; as oft the cloud that wraps the present hour, serves but to lighten all our future days.—X. Brown. Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling ...
... virtue by affliction; as oft the cloud that wraps the present hour, serves but to lighten all our future days.—X. Brown. Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling ...
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... virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.—Virgil. Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite.—Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.—Bancroft. That ...
... virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.—Virgil. Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite.—Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.—Bancroft. That ...
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... virtue consecrating every feature; around that nook what dross are gold and pearl!—Young. Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.— From the French. Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when ...
... virtue consecrating every feature; around that nook what dross are gold and pearl!—Young. Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.— From the French. Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when ...
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