A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and ModernCassell publishing Company, 1891 - 644 páginas |
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... true to nature , and carry our age along with us . - Hazlitt . Years do not make sages ; they only make old men . - Mad . Swetchine . Every one desires to live long , but no one would be old . — Swift . Nothing is more disgraceful than ...
... true to nature , and carry our age along with us . - Hazlitt . Years do not make sages ; they only make old men . - Mad . Swetchine . Every one desires to live long , but no one would be old . — Swift . Nothing is more disgraceful than ...
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... true moral excellence . - Ladd . Armies , though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being , are always its destroyers too , by fre- quently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it ...
... true moral excellence . - Ladd . Armies , though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being , are always its destroyers too , by fre- quently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it ...
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... true aim of all right human aspirations.— Vinet . Aspirations after the holy - the only aspi- rations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet with disappointment.- Maria McIntosh . The desires and longings of man are vast ...
... true aim of all right human aspirations.— Vinet . Aspirations after the holy - the only aspi- rations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet with disappointment.- Maria McIntosh . The desires and longings of man are vast ...
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... True features make the beauty of the face ; true proportions , the beauty of architecture ; true measures , the beauty of harmony and music . - Shaftesbury . How goodness heightens beauty ! —Han- nah More . Beauty is the mark God sets ...
... True features make the beauty of the face ; true proportions , the beauty of architecture ; true measures , the beauty of harmony and music . - Shaftesbury . How goodness heightens beauty ! —Han- nah More . Beauty is the mark God sets ...
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... true beauty that corresponds with right reason , and is not the inere creation of fancy . - Greville . Every year of my life I grow more con- vinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good , and ...
... true beauty that corresponds with right reason , and is not the inere creation of fancy . - Greville . Every year of my life I grow more con- vinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good , and ...
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