Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors, 931; Subjects, 1393; Quotations, 10,299 |
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... less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice . The person ask- ing seems to pay deference to the opinion of his friend , while thinking in reality of making his friend approve his opinion and be responsible for his conduct ...
... less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice . The person ask- ing seems to pay deference to the opinion of his friend , while thinking in reality of making his friend approve his opinion and be responsible for his conduct ...
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... less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears , Than settled age his sables , and his weeds , Importing nealth and graveness . Shakespeare . As you are old and reverend , you should be wise . Ibid . ( OLD , ) Cares of . Care ...
... less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears , Than settled age his sables , and his weeds , Importing nealth and graveness . Shakespeare . As you are old and reverend , you should be wise . Ibid . ( OLD , ) Cares of . Care ...
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... less , Embitt'ring the possess'd ; why wish for more ? Young . SELFISHNESS OF . Jeffreys . Those that were up themselves , kept others low ; Those that were low themselves , held oth- ers hard ; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow ...
... less , Embitt'ring the possess'd ; why wish for more ? Young . SELFISHNESS OF . Jeffreys . Those that were up themselves , kept others low ; Those that were low themselves , held oth- ers hard ; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow ...
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... Less prone t ' excess than avarice ; It neither cares for food or clothing ; Nature's content with little - that with noth- ing . Butler . CORRUPTION of . The lust of gold succeeds the lust of con- quest ; The lust of gold , unfeeling ...
... Less prone t ' excess than avarice ; It neither cares for food or clothing ; Nature's content with little - that with noth- ing . Butler . CORRUPTION of . The lust of gold succeeds the lust of con- quest ; The lust of gold , unfeeling ...
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... less . TWO KINDs of . Byron . There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness ; this , the awkwardness of a booby , which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb ; that , a consciousness , which ...
... less . TWO KINDs of . Byron . There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness ; this , the awkwardness of a booby , which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb ; that , a consciousness , which ...
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Page 21 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 277 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes, Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings: But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice...
Page 233 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 303 - Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 107 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 141 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 90 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 166 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 168 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 6 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.