The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... give him countenance and employment.― Goldsmith— Citizen of the World . DIX . Laws . - Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed , and they will answer , that the laws were designed as a protection for the poor ...
... give him countenance and employment.― Goldsmith— Citizen of the World . DIX . Laws . - Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed , and they will answer , that the laws were designed as a protection for the poor ...
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... give way to their propensi- ties , are void of reason ; but that their reason , from edu- cation , from connexions , from self - interest , from situation , from climate , from the nature of government , and from . various other ...
... give way to their propensi- ties , are void of reason ; but that their reason , from edu- cation , from connexions , from self - interest , from situation , from climate , from the nature of government , and from . various other ...
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... gives bitterness to resent- ment , it makes vanity insupportable , and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity . — Addison . 裴 DXXXI . The Proud Man . - A proud 22 SELECT PASSAGES DXXVIII. ...
... gives bitterness to resent- ment , it makes vanity insupportable , and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity . — Addison . 裴 DXXXI . The Proud Man . - A proud 22 SELECT PASSAGES DXXVIII. ...
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... gives place to no man but himself , and that with very great distance to all others , whom he esteems not worthy to approach him . He believes what- ever he has receives a value in being his ; as a horse in a nobleman's stable will bear ...
... gives place to no man but himself , and that with very great distance to all others , whom he esteems not worthy to approach him . He believes what- ever he has receives a value in being his ; as a horse in a nobleman's stable will bear ...
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... give a strong proof of honesty . But this is a proof to which you have no right to put a man . You know , humanly speaking , there is a certain degree of temptation which will over- come any virtue . Now , in so far as you approach ...
... give a strong proof of honesty . But this is a proof to which you have no right to put a man . You know , humanly speaking , there is a certain degree of temptation which will over- come any virtue . Now , in so far as you approach ...
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Page 25 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 220 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 43 - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Page 46 - 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?
Page 25 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 25 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 74 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 27 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Page 43 - ... shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
Page 183 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.