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... Shakespeare. The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.—Eastern Proverb. Actors. The profession of the player, like that of the painter, is one of the imitative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end should be virtue ...
... Shakespeare. The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.—Eastern Proverb. Actors. The profession of the player, like that of the painter, is one of the imitative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end should be virtue ...
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... Shakespeare. He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.—Burke. It is easy ...
... Shakespeare. He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.—Burke. It is easy ...
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... Shakespeare. How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.—N. P. Willis. Too often those who entertain ambition, expel remorse and nature.— Shakespeare. Too low they build who build below the skies.—Young. Great ...
... Shakespeare. How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.—N. P. Willis. Too often those who entertain ambition, expel remorse and nature.— Shakespeare. Too low they build who build below the skies.—Young. Great ...
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... Shakespeare. It is best to be with those in time, that we hope to be with in eternity.— Duller. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of ...
... Shakespeare. It is best to be with those in time, that we hope to be with in eternity.— Duller. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of ...
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... Shakespeare. Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.—Cowley. It is one of the worst effects of prosperity that it makes a man a vortex instead of a fountain, be that instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in ...
... Shakespeare. Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.—Cowley. It is one of the worst effects of prosperity that it makes a man a vortex instead of a fountain, be that instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in ...
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