The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind ; and what in- credible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions , both of men and things ; that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul , and plant it ...
... observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind ; and what in- credible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions , both of men and things ; that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul , and plant it ...
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... observation , with which we read the natural history , or remark the manners of any other animal , there is nothing in the human character which would more surprise us , than the almost universal subjugation of strength to weakness ...
... observation , with which we read the natural history , or remark the manners of any other animal , there is nothing in the human character which would more surprise us , than the almost universal subjugation of strength to weakness ...
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... observe that it is prescription which confers the title to almost every thing else . The whole course , and all the habits of civil life , favour this prejudice . II . They who obey from reason , that is to say , from conscience as ...
... observe that it is prescription which confers the title to almost every thing else . The whole course , and all the habits of civil life , favour this prejudice . II . They who obey from reason , that is to say , from conscience as ...
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... observe the actions and sentiments of the dying , we shall find that , except in a few acute diseases , attend . ed with agitations and convulsions , which exhibit only the appearances of pain , most men expire quietly , and without the ...
... observe the actions and sentiments of the dying , we shall find that , except in a few acute diseases , attend . ed with agitations and convulsions , which exhibit only the appearances of pain , most men expire quietly , and without the ...
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... observation , that in human life , at least in human institutions , our movements are very eccentric , and that when we progress , it is generally last in those things in which it ought naturally to be the first . There is an inertia in ...
... observation , that in human life , at least in human institutions , our movements are very eccentric , and that when we progress , it is generally last in those things in which it ought naturally to be the first . There is an inertia in ...
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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.