The Rule of Life: Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences ...Parsons & Hills, 1834 - 264 sidor |
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... rich is to be wise , and tyranny is honorable . Though little thefts and petty mischiefs are interrupted by the laws ; yet if a mischief becomes public and great , acted by princes , and effected by armies , if rob- beries be committed ...
... rich is to be wise , and tyranny is honorable . Though little thefts and petty mischiefs are interrupted by the laws ; yet if a mischief becomes public and great , acted by princes , and effected by armies , if rob- beries be committed ...
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... rich with- out ostentation , courteous without deceit , and brave without vice . ANGER AND REVENGE . AN angry man who suppresses his passions , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks ...
... rich with- out ostentation , courteous without deceit , and brave without vice . ANGER AND REVENGE . AN angry man who suppresses his passions , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks ...
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... rich miser is the Tantalus in the fable . He sits gaping over his money ; and dares no more touch it , than he dares commit sacrilege . No kind admonition of friends , nor fear of pover- ty , can make a prodigal become thrifty . The ...
... rich miser is the Tantalus in the fable . He sits gaping over his money ; and dares no more touch it , than he dares commit sacrilege . No kind admonition of friends , nor fear of pover- ty , can make a prodigal become thrifty . The ...
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... rich distracted man , are pretty much upon an equality ; and , as far as the imagination goes , often change condi- tions ; the poor man fancying himself a prince , whilst the rich one pines and torments himself with all 44 Hope , Fear ,
... rich distracted man , are pretty much upon an equality ; and , as far as the imagination goes , often change condi- tions ; the poor man fancying himself a prince , whilst the rich one pines and torments himself with all 44 Hope , Fear ,
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Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences ... Watson Adams. whilst the rich one pines and torments himself with all the anxieties of poverty . More perish through too much confidence , than by too much fear . Where one despairs , there ...
Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences ... Watson Adams. whilst the rich one pines and torments himself with all the anxieties of poverty . More perish through too much confidence , than by too much fear . Where one despairs , there ...
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Sida 250 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Sida 213 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
Sida 190 - We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
Sida 15 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Sida 206 - The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the man of fortune, are great reliefs to a country life, and many ways useful to those who are possessed of them. But of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Sida 248 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Sida 224 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Sida 71 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.
Sida 37 - A strange thing that that part of an orator which is but superficial and rather the virtue of a player should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.