Essence of wisdom, distilled from the flowers of ancient and modern literature, by A. Walker1873 |
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Strana 9
... objects , black by night . By night an atheist half believes a God . Young's Night Thoughts . AMBITION . We , ignorant of ourselves , Beg often our own harms , which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit By losing of ...
... objects , black by night . By night an atheist half believes a God . Young's Night Thoughts . AMBITION . We , ignorant of ourselves , Beg often our own harms , which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit By losing of ...
Strana 64
... objects , a mere notice of the necessity for exertion , a bug - bear to children and fools , only a mere stimulus to man . Samuel Warren . Difficulties spur us whenever they do not check us . DISHONESTY , He that is dishonest , trusts ...
... objects , a mere notice of the necessity for exertion , a bug - bear to children and fools , only a mere stimulus to man . Samuel Warren . Difficulties spur us whenever they do not check us . DISHONESTY , He that is dishonest , trusts ...
Strana 71
... object , that he anticipated in the pursuit of it . But although the individual may be disappointed , the community are benefited , first , by his exertions ; and , secondly , by his example ; for , it has been well observed , that the ...
... object , that he anticipated in the pursuit of it . But although the individual may be disappointed , the community are benefited , first , by his exertions ; and , secondly , by his example ; for , it has been well observed , that the ...
Strana 76
... man . It ends with this life , for then it is swallowed up in the possession and enjoy- ment of all its glorious objects . Bickersteth . FLATTERY . Flattery is an ensnaring quality , and leaves 76 THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM .
... man . It ends with this life , for then it is swallowed up in the possession and enjoy- ment of all its glorious objects . Bickersteth . FLATTERY . Flattery is an ensnaring quality , and leaves 76 THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM .
Strana 83
... object to be kind to ; and the best part of our blood , and purest of our spirits , suffer most under the des- titution . Wherever Providence places me , may I have a companion in my journey , be it only to remark how our shadows ...
... object to be kind to ; and the best part of our blood , and purest of our spirits , suffer most under the des- titution . Wherever Providence places me , may I have a companion in my journey , be it only to remark how our shadows ...
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Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better Blessed child Dean Swift death delight doth Douglas Jerrold dull duty earth envy eternity evil family newspaper fear feel fire flattery fool friendship give glory Göethe gold hand happy hath heart heaven honest honour horse Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Jonson labour laugh light live look Lord Lord Bacon man-the man's mankind Massinger mean mercy mind misery morality nature never night o'er OTLEY Otway Owen Feltham peace perfect pleasure poor Post-free praise pride proud reason religion religious rich Richter Shakespeare Shelley society sorrow soul spirit sweet Sydney Smith talk tell Temperance thee There's things Thomas Fuller thou thought thousand tongue truth vice VIOLENT DELIGHTS virtue Walter Walker Washington Irving Whichcote wisdom wise words young
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Strana 110 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Strana 13 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Strana 88 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Strana 90 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Strana 151 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Strana 148 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Strana 168 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Strana 132 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Strana 117 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Strana 9 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.