Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826 |
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Page 61 - Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say...
Page 162 - No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
Page 177 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 77 - The truly great consider first, how they may gain the approbation of God; and secondly, that of their own conscience; having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing ; the primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men, and having effected this, the approbation of God, and their own conscience, may follow on as they can.—Lacon.
Page 103 - There are two modes of establishing our reputation : to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.— It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanie d by the latter.
Page 195 - It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
Page 82 - In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come ; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past ; in manhood, although we appear, indeed, to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.
Page 114 - The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
Page 49 - Men spend their lives in anticipations. in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured...
Page 200 - POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power...