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... Coxcomb Credit Creditor Credulity Creed Crime Criticism Critics Cross Cruelty Cultivation Cunning Curiosity Curses Custom Cynics Dancing Dandy Danger Daughters Day Death Debt Deceit Decency Decision Deeds Defeat Deference.
... Coxcomb Credit Creditor Credulity Creed Crime Criticism Critics Cross Cruelty Cultivation Cunning Curiosity Curses Custom Cynics Dancing Dandy Danger Daughters Day Death Debt Deceit Decency Decision Deeds Defeat Deference.
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Tryon Edwards. Daughters Day Death Debt Deceit Decency Decision Deeds Defeat Deference Definition Deformity Delay Delicacy Delight Delusion Democracy Dependence Depravity Desire Desolation Despair Despondency Despotism Destiny Detraction ...
Tryon Edwards. Daughters Day Death Debt Deceit Decency Decision Deeds Defeat Deference Definition Deformity Delay Delicacy Delight Delusion Democracy Dependence Depravity Desire Desolation Despair Despondency Despotism Destiny Detraction ...
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... deeds though he risks everything in doing them.—Plutarch. All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light.—W. T. Bacon. Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study ...
... deeds though he risks everything in doing them.—Plutarch. All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light.—W. T. Bacon. Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study ...
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... deed go with it.— Shakespeare. The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.— Carlyle. The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.—Bailey. Thought and theory must ...
... deed go with it.— Shakespeare. The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.— Carlyle. The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.—Bailey. Thought and theory must ...
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... deeds.—Bailey. We ask advice; we mean approbation.—Cotton. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.—Coleridge. Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's ...
... deeds.—Bailey. We ask advice; we mean approbation.—Cotton. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.—Coleridge. Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's ...
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action Apothegms Aristotle atheism beauty become Beecher believe better Bible blessing body Chapin character Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience danger death deeds desire devil divine doth duty earth Edwards Eliot enemy eternal everything evil faith fear feel flowers folly fool genius George Eliot give glory God’s grace greatest grow habit happiness hath heart heaven holy honor hope human idle ignorance Jeremy Taylor Joshua Reynolds kind knowledge labor learning liberty light live look man’s mankind marriage men’s mind moral nature never noble one’s opinion ourselves passions perfect person philosophy pleasure Plutarch principles Proverb Publius Syrus reason religion rich Rochefoucauld sense Shakespeare Simmons sorrow soul speak spirit temper thee Theodore Parker things thou thought today true truth vice virtue Voltaire Washington Allston weak wisdom wise word