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... tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens . To change one's country then is little more than to remove from one street to another . Man is not a plant , rooted to a certain spot of earth : all soils and all ...
... tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens . To change one's country then is little more than to remove from one street to another . Man is not a plant , rooted to a certain spot of earth : all soils and all ...
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... tell a man he lies , though but in jest , is an affront that nothing but blood can expiate . The reason per- haps may be because no other vice implies a want of courage so much as the making of a lie ; and therefore telling a man he ...
... tell a man he lies , though but in jest , is an affront that nothing but blood can expiate . The reason per- haps may be because no other vice implies a want of courage so much as the making of a lie ; and therefore telling a man he ...
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... tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion ? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , since it makes me both the happier and better man . - Addison . CCLXXXVI ...
... tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion ? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , since it makes me both the happier and better man . - Addison . CCLXXXVI ...
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... Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " One may fairly sup pose that a man who makes a knave or fool his friend , has something very bad to do or conceal . But 78 LACONICS .
... Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " One may fairly sup pose that a man who makes a knave or fool his friend , has something very bad to do or conceal . But 78 LACONICS .
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... tell his father , he has lived too long ; and a husband the privilege of talking of his second wife be- fore his first . But let the airy gentleman , who makes thus bold with others , retire a while out of company , and he scarce dares tell ...
... tell his father , he has lived too long ; and a husband the privilege of talking of his second wife be- fore his first . But let the airy gentleman , who makes thus bold with others , retire a while out of company , and he scarce dares tell ...
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Página 56 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 14 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 95 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Página 24 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Página 74 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Página 175 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Página 120 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Página 64 - I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there ; if I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me,
Página 179 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Página 181 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.