 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pages
...better and greater with it Corruption is like a ball of snow when once set a rolling it must increase If you want enemies excel others if you want friends let others excel you If an author writes better than his contemporaries they will term him a plagiarist if as well a pretender... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1850 - 688 pages
...a0 8 £ o f. c' **• s 1 a i» o IT 5" £• s §r 3 3 1 B. •3" 4 1 5' SZ 4 f f" s s | 5. 5* 1If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. •(53 MISCELLANIES IN DOMESTIC ECONOMY. •3 1 and as soon as four or five bubbles have risen, take... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...whenever it forgets itself, naturally assumes good-humor. — Cumberland. PRIDE, ENVY, AND HATE. — There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural...possess ; envy, that some should be admired while we are overlodked ; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.... | |
 | 1855 - 532 pages
...first man who should dare to call or treat him as a slave ; and afterwards boasted it in the pulpit ! 'If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. ' Alas ! how has the social and cheerful spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...T>EOPLE seldom improve, when they have no other Model but themselves to copy after. g, — Colton. TF you want Enemies, excel others ; if you want Friends, let others excel you. 3E*Celltng, — La Bruyere. TTE who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1096 pages
...than he. OOu-rs are any persons or things distinguished from some that are named or referred to; as, " If you want enemies, excel others ; if you want friends, let others excel you." — Lnron. All adjectives thus taken substantively, become nouns, and ought to be parsed as such, unless... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1865 - 154 pages
...seldom fail of their ao complishment. He is the greatest man who does the greatest service to man kind. If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let Others excel you. Straws swim on the surface, but pearls lie at the bottom. Honors, monuments, and all the works of vanity... | |
 | Melville De Lancey Landon - 1871 - 274 pages
...impossible to ascend. " In the grand theatre of human life, a box ticket takes us through the house." 3rd. " If you want enemies excel others ; if you want friends let others excel you." We hate those only of whom we are envious and jealous, because they excel us. We desire their goods... | |
 | 1876 - 510 pages
...a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting drunk, but forgets the pains of getting sober." " If you want enemies, excel others : if you want friends, let others excel you." Our modern almanacs deal not in such philosophy. They go in for general information. The old collector... | |
 | Robert Christy - 1887 - 742 pages
...enemies you had been a better man. 139. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. 140. If you want enemies excel others, if you want friends let others excel you. 141. If you wanted me an' your meat, you would want a gude freende. 142. In time of prosperity friends... | |
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If you want enemies, excel others ; if you want friends, let others excel you. 
