Excellent Quotations for Home and School ...Lee and Shepard, 1890 - 329 páginas |
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... , and the influence of beautiful English speech and of true artistic perceptions , must make impressions , though they be unconscious , only for good . The works of genius are the precious gifts which have vi PREFACE.
... , and the influence of beautiful English speech and of true artistic perceptions , must make impressions , though they be unconscious , only for good . The works of genius are the precious gifts which have vi PREFACE.
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... True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed , Welcome the coming , speed the parting guest . HESIOD ( ABOUT 850 B.C. ) Pope's Odyssey Fools ! not to know how better , for the soul , An honest half , than an ill - gotten whole ...
... True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed , Welcome the coming , speed the parting guest . HESIOD ( ABOUT 850 B.C. ) Pope's Odyssey Fools ! not to know how better , for the soul , An honest half , than an ill - gotten whole ...
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... True , conscious honor is to feel no sin ; He's armed without that's innocent within , Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass . In adversity those talents are called forth , which are concealed by prosperity . With equal foot ...
... True , conscious honor is to feel no sin ; He's armed without that's innocent within , Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass . In adversity those talents are called forth , which are concealed by prosperity . With equal foot ...
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... true , correct thyself ; if it be a lie , laugh at it . MARCUS AURELIUS ( 121-180 ) Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm , if thou art doing thy duty . BASIL ( 329-379 ) A good deed is never lost : he who sows ...
... true , correct thyself ; if it be a lie , laugh at it . MARCUS AURELIUS ( 121-180 ) Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm , if thou art doing thy duty . BASIL ( 329-379 ) A good deed is never lost : he who sows ...
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... True hope is swift , and flies with swallow's wings ; Kings it makes gods , and meaner creatures , kings . ' Tis better to be lowly born , King Richard III And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perked up in a glistering ...
... True hope is swift , and flies with swallow's wings ; Kings it makes gods , and meaner creatures , kings . ' Tis better to be lowly born , King Richard III And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perked up in a glistering ...
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Excellent Quotations for Home and School: Selected for the Use of Teachers ... Julia B. Hoitt Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Términos y frases comunes
50 cents ALICE CARY angels Anon beautiful bird bless blue born brave bring cloud daisies Dare dead dear deeds divine doth duty earth EDWARD GIBBON eternal eyes fall flowers forever friends gems GEORGE GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE George William Curtis give glory God's golden grow hand happy hath heart heaven honor Jean Ingelow John JOSEPH JOUBERT Julius Cæsar King Henry King Henry VI labor land liberty light lilies and violets live look mind morning never night noble o'er onward P. J. Bailey poet Proverb Shakspeare sing smile song sorrow soul speak stars story sweet teach tears tell thee Theodore Parker thine things THOMAS thou thought to-day toil tree true truth virtue William wind wisdom wise words writer young youth
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Página 167 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land!
Página 75 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 128 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ?— God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo God!
Página 136 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 78 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Página 44 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 162 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Página 50 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Página xii - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.