Great thoughts from Latin authors, by C.T. RamageCraufurd Tait Ramage 1884 |
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... grief . " Euripides ( Fr. , Erechth . 10 ) says : - " For it is right to prize what is our own , rather than what has been acquired by robbery : for ill - gotten wealth is never stable . " So Proverbs x . 2 : - " Treasures of wickedness ...
... grief . " Euripides ( Fr. , Erechth . 10 ) says : - " For it is right to prize what is our own , rather than what has been acquired by robbery : for ill - gotten wealth is never stable . " So Proverbs x . 2 : - " Treasures of wickedness ...
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... grief than the advice of a good and honored friend . He who , in his sufferings , excites and tries to soothe his mind by wine , though he may have pleasure for a moment has a double portion of pain after- wards . " A MIND WELL ...
... grief than the advice of a good and honored friend . He who , in his sufferings , excites and tries to soothe his mind by wine , though he may have pleasure for a moment has a double portion of pain after- wards . " A MIND WELL ...
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... no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach . FOLLY TO TEAR ONE'S HAIR IN SORROW . It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow , as if grief could be assuaged by baldness . THE FOOL LYNX - EYED TO THE FOLLIES OF HIS CICERO . 115.
... no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach . FOLLY TO TEAR ONE'S HAIR IN SORROW . It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow , as if grief could be assuaged by baldness . THE FOOL LYNX - EYED TO THE FOLLIES OF HIS CICERO . 115.
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... GRIEF LESSENED BY TIME . There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften . Philetas of Cos ( Fr. 1 , S. ) says : - " But when time has come round , which has been assigned by Jupiter to assuage grief , and which alone possesses ...
... GRIEF LESSENED BY TIME . There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften . Philetas of Cos ( Fr. 1 , S. ) says : - " But when time has come round , which has been assigned by Jupiter to assuage grief , and which alone possesses ...
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... grief , And run to meet what he would most avoid ? " And Isaac Watts says : - " I am not concerned to know What to - morrow fate will do ; " Tis enough that I can say I've possessed myself to - day . " FLEETNESS OF TIME . How much ...
... grief , And run to meet what he would most avoid ? " And Isaac Watts says : - " I am not concerned to know What to - morrow fate will do ; " Tis enough that I can say I've possessed myself to - day . " FLEETNESS OF TIME . How much ...
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Page 642 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 546 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 553 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 566 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 346 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 240 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 231 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 129 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.