The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, Alphabetically Arranged by SubjectsBritkin, 1927 - 724 páginas |
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... habit , or desire , an inclination among students , readers and speakers , to develop and broaden their scope of knowledge , and to learn and know the thoughts and the expressions of the world's greatest and most renowned writers ...
... habit , or desire , an inclination among students , readers and speakers , to develop and broaden their scope of knowledge , and to learn and know the thoughts and the expressions of the world's greatest and most renowned writers ...
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... habits . Charles Reade . Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age , when the eager ... habit . - Rochefoucauld . There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world ...
... habits . Charles Reade . Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age , when the eager ... habit . - Rochefoucauld . There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world ...
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... habit of dissipating every serious thought by a succession of agreeable sensations is as fatal to happiness as to virtue ; for when amusement is uniformly substituted for objects of moral and mental interest , we lose all that elevates ...
... habit of dissipating every serious thought by a succession of agreeable sensations is as fatal to happiness as to virtue ; for when amusement is uniformly substituted for objects of moral and mental interest , we lose all that elevates ...
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... habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors ; thinking it better to be nobly remem- bered than nobly born ; and striving so to live , that our sons , and our sons ' sons , for ages to come , might still lead ...
... habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors ; thinking it better to be nobly remem- bered than nobly born ; and striving so to live , that our sons , and our sons ' sons , for ages to come , might still lead ...
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... habit and morals too often are neglected ; where chivalry is exalted , and religion undervalued ; where virtue is rather understood in the classic sense of forti- tude and courage , than in the modern and Christian sense of true moral ...
... habit and morals too often are neglected ; where chivalry is exalted , and religion undervalued ; where virtue is rather understood in the classic sense of forti- tude and courage , than in the modern and Christian sense of true moral ...
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action atheism beauty better blessing Bulwer Carlyle Chapin character Chesterfield Christ Christian Cicero Coleridge Colton conscience Daniel Webster death divine doth duty earth Emerson eternal evil eyes faith fear feel folly fool genius George Eliot give God's Goethe grace greatest H. W. Beecher habit happiness hath heart heaven honor hope Horace Bushnell human Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Johnson knowledge labor Lavater liberty light live look man's mankind ment mind moral N. P. Willis nature ness never noble opinion ourselves passions person pleasure Plutarch praise pride Quarles reason religion rich Rochefoucauld Seneca sense Shakespeare smile sorrow soul speak spirit Sydney Smith temper thee Theodore Parker things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion true truth Tryon Edwards vice virtue Washington Irving wisdom wise words young