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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 land- scapes do their variety from light.- W. T. Bacon . Life was not given for indolent con ...
... noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them . - Plutarch . All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart , as land- scapes do their variety from light.- W. T. Bacon . Life was not given for indolent con ...
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... noble spirit ap- pears greatest in distress ; and then be- comes more 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 ...
... noble spirit ap- pears greatest in distress ; and then be- comes more 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 ...
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... noble minded , but con- firm the obduracy of the vile , as the same furnace that liquifies the gold , hardens the clay . - Colton . The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices . - E . Shepard . There is such a ...
... noble minded , but con- firm the obduracy of the vile , as the same furnace that liquifies the gold , hardens the clay . - Colton . The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices . - E . Shepard . There is such a ...
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... noble life has prepared old age , it is not decline that it reveals , but the first days of immortality . — Mad . de Staël . The evening of a well - spent life brings its lamps with it . - Joubert . Age does not make us childish , as ...
... noble life has prepared old age , it is not decline that it reveals , but the first days of immortality . — Mad . de Staël . The evening of a well - spent life brings its lamps with it . - Joubert . Age does not make us childish , as ...
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