The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... never speak well , but also never think well , of those whom they dislike , and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them . - Butler . XV . The Religion of Christ . - The ...
... never speak well , but also never think well , of those whom they dislike , and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them . - Butler . XV . The Religion of Christ . - The ...
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... never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest . Sterne's Sermons . XXXV . Happiness . That state of life is most happy , where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting . Plutarch . XXXVI . Honesty the best ...
... never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest . Sterne's Sermons . XXXV . Happiness . That state of life is most happy , where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting . Plutarch . XXXVI . Honesty the best ...
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... never be injured . - Laplace - Sys- teme du Monde . XLV . Mercy and Humanity . - When a man cares not what sufferings he causes others , and especially if he delights in other men's sufferings and makes them his sport , this is cruelty ...
... never be injured . - Laplace - Sys- teme du Monde . XLV . Mercy and Humanity . - When a man cares not what sufferings he causes others , and especially if he delights in other men's sufferings and makes them his sport , this is cruelty ...
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... never forget the horrible contortions which I there saw . Despair , fury , malicious joy , and anguish , were by turns visible in their countenances . Their rage , I assure you , appeared to me that of the furies - their gravity that of ...
... never forget the horrible contortions which I there saw . Despair , fury , malicious joy , and anguish , were by turns visible in their countenances . Their rage , I assure you , appeared to me that of the furies - their gravity that of ...
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... never granted to man , but as the reward of labour . It argues , indeed , no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages , which , like the hand of a clock , whilst ...
... never granted to man , but as the reward of labour . It argues , indeed , no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages , which , like the hand of a clock , whilst ...
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Page 110 - After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
Page 27 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 144 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 88 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
Page 209 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Page 222 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Page 204 - Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards...
Page 222 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Page 184 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 208 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of...