Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... friendship , there needs none . Ceremony . - Hare . FORMS and Regularity of Proceeding , if they are not justice , par- take much of the nature of justice , which , in its highest sense , is the spirit of distributive Order . Ceremony ...
... friendship , there needs none . Ceremony . - Hare . FORMS and Regularity of Proceeding , if they are not justice , par- take much of the nature of justice , which , in its highest sense , is the spirit of distributive Order . Ceremony ...
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... friendship merely because their stamina , their ingredients of character are too single , too much apart ; let them be finely ground up with each other , and they will be incomparable . Character . Colton . - DUKE Chartres used to boast ...
... friendship merely because their stamina , their ingredients of character are too single , too much apart ; let them be finely ground up with each other , and they will be incomparable . Character . Colton . - DUKE Chartres used to boast ...
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... Friendship , Formality for Religion , Pedantry for Learning , Buffoonry for Wit , Artifice for Nature , and Hypocrisy for every thing ; these are the signs of the times which he that runs may read , and which will enable the Philosopher ...
... Friendship , Formality for Religion , Pedantry for Learning , Buffoonry for Wit , Artifice for Nature , and Hypocrisy for every thing ; these are the signs of the times which he that runs may read , and which will enable the Philosopher ...
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... Friendship of higher natures . Conviviality . - Armstrong . WHAT dextrous thousands just within the goal Of wild Debauch direct their nightly course ! Perhaps no sickly qualms bedim their days , No morning admonitions shock the head ...
... Friendship of higher natures . Conviviality . - Armstrong . WHAT dextrous thousands just within the goal Of wild Debauch direct their nightly course ! Perhaps no sickly qualms bedim their days , No morning admonitions shock the head ...
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... Friendship , Love , Youth , all that is , Except mere breath ; and since the silent Shore Awaits at last even those whom longest miss The old Archer's shafts , perhaps the early Grave Which men weep over may be meant to save . Death ...
... Friendship , Love , Youth , all that is , Except mere breath ; and since the silent Shore Awaits at last even those whom longest miss The old Archer's shafts , perhaps the early Grave Which men weep over may be meant to save . Death ...
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