Diamond DustF. Pitman, 1865 - 192 pages |
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... speak of being settled in life , —we might as well think of casting anchor in the midst of the Atlantic , or talk of the permanent position of a stone that is rolling down hill . HE whom reason rules may be trusted to rule others . THE ...
... speak of being settled in life , —we might as well think of casting anchor in the midst of the Atlantic , or talk of the permanent position of a stone that is rolling down hill . HE whom reason rules may be trusted to rule others . THE ...
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... speaking when persons refrain from evil - hearing . ARE we quite sure that Pygmalion was the only one who ever fell in love with his own handicraft . SINCE the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle , men ...
... speaking when persons refrain from evil - hearing . ARE we quite sure that Pygmalion was the only one who ever fell in love with his own handicraft . SINCE the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle , men ...
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... speak loudest near tones of music . FRUGALITY is good if liberality be joined with it ; — the first without the last begets covetousness ; the last without the first causes prodigality . IF you wish your own merit to be known ...
... speak loudest near tones of music . FRUGALITY is good if liberality be joined with it ; — the first without the last begets covetousness ; the last without the first causes prodigality . IF you wish your own merit to be known ...
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... SPEAKING without thinking is like shooting without taking aim . IN trifles , infinitely clearer than in great deeds , is actual character displayed . WE gain as much by avoiding the failings of others , as we do in imitating that in ...
... SPEAKING without thinking is like shooting without taking aim . IN trifles , infinitely clearer than in great deeds , is actual character displayed . WE gain as much by avoiding the failings of others , as we do in imitating that in ...
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... speaking the truth , than that truth should suffer for want of speaking . Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience so often preaches to us in vain . FICTION , in poetry , is not the reverse of truth ...
... speaking the truth , than that truth should suffer for want of speaking . Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience so often preaches to us in vain . FICTION , in poetry , is not the reverse of truth ...
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Page 56 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 176 - Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must come out before we can measure them.
Page 116 - It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity...
Page 123 - Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Page 5 - Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others ; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, and let ambition have but an epicycle and narrow circuit in thee. Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave : and reckon thyself above the earth, by the line thou must be contented with under it.
Page 108 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 106 - NONE are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Page 151 - When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost; and, lo ! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Page 55 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 24 - Books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason ; — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.