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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... weak understanding are so sensible of that weakness , as to be able to make a good use of it.- Rochefoucauld . We are often able because we think we are able.-J. Hawes . The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest ...
... weak understanding are so sensible of that weakness , as to be able to make a good use of it.- Rochefoucauld . We are often able because we think we are able.-J. Hawes . The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest ...
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... weak and fruitless : so doth the best man if he be not cut short in his desires , and pruned with afflictions . --Bp . Hall . Extraordinary afflictions are not al- ways the punishment of extraordinary sins , but sometimes the trial of ...
... weak and fruitless : so doth the best man if he be not cut short in his desires , and pruned with afflictions . --Bp . Hall . Extraordinary afflictions are not al- ways the punishment of extraordinary sins , but sometimes the trial of ...
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... weak point of all old men , but only of such as are distinguished by their levity and weakness . - Cicero . There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capable of receiving pleasures , nor ...
... weak point of all old men , but only of such as are distinguished by their levity and weakness . - Cicero . There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capable of receiving pleasures , nor ...
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... weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity . To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy . - G . S. Hillard . It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap , that so much misery is caused in ...
... weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity . To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy . - G . S. Hillard . It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap , that so much misery is caused in ...
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... weak- ening its power . - A childlike and abid- ing trust in Providence is its best pre- ventive and remedy . - Tryon Edwards . Do not anticipate trouble , or worry about what may never happen . Keep in the sunlight . - Franklin ...
... weak- ening its power . - A childlike and abid- ing trust in Providence is its best pre- ventive and remedy . - Tryon Edwards . Do not anticipate trouble , or worry about what may never happen . Keep in the sunlight . - Franklin ...
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