Essence of wisdom, distilled from the flowers of ancient and modern literature, by A. Walker1873 |
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Strana 13
... Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence ; But , like a thrifty goddess , she determines Herself the glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . ARROGANCE ...
... Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence ; But , like a thrifty goddess , she determines Herself the glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . ARROGANCE ...
Strana 15
... spirits admire basely , and wor- ship meanly . Thackeray . ANIMAL SPIRITS . All's brave that youth mounts and folly guides . AFFIRMATION . A lady's verily is As potent as a lord's . ANGELS . Shakespeare . Shakespeare . Angels are bright ...
... spirits admire basely , and wor- ship meanly . Thackeray . ANIMAL SPIRITS . All's brave that youth mounts and folly guides . AFFIRMATION . A lady's verily is As potent as a lord's . ANGELS . Shakespeare . Shakespeare . Angels are bright ...
Strana 21
... spirit ; embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life - they are the seasoned life of man - the ethereal breath of reason itself . Milton . No entertainment is so cheap as reading , nor any pleasure so lasting . Lady ...
... spirit ; embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life - they are the seasoned life of man - the ethereal breath of reason itself . Milton . No entertainment is so cheap as reading , nor any pleasure so lasting . Lady ...
Strana 41
... twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But , like a thrifty goddess , she determines Herself THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM . 41.
... twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But , like a thrifty goddess , she determines Herself THE ESSENCE OF WISDOM . 41.
Strana 46
... spirits act with a superior vigour in the quest and pursuit of unknown truths . There is a sharpness and sagacity of thought that attends conversation , beyond what we find whilst we are shut up reading and musing in our retirements ...
... spirits act with a superior vigour in the quest and pursuit of unknown truths . There is a sharpness and sagacity of thought that attends conversation , beyond what we find whilst we are shut up reading and musing in our retirements ...
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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.