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... fool, is the happiest creature living.— Steele. In old age life's shadows are meeting eternity's day.—Clarke. The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not from their birth.—Homer. The golden age is before us, not behind ...
... fool, is the happiest creature living.— Steele. In old age life's shadows are meeting eternity's day.—Clarke. The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not from their birth.—Homer. The golden age is before us, not behind ...
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... fool's atheism, yet daily deny God in very deed. The atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation—a contemner of God who explodes his laws by denying his existence.—John Foster. What can be more foolish than to think that all ...
... fool's atheism, yet daily deny God in very deed. The atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation—a contemner of God who explodes his laws by denying his existence.—John Foster. What can be more foolish than to think that all ...
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... fool throws up his interest in both worlds, first starved in this, then damned in that to come.—Blair. Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to ...
... fool throws up his interest in both worlds, first starved in this, then damned in that to come.—Blair. Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to ...
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... fool's furnace.—Quarles. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.—Bacon. Beauty hath so many charms one knows not how to speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul—when the ...
... fool's furnace.—Quarles. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.—Bacon. Beauty hath so many charms one knows not how to speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul—when the ...
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... fool. There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.—Simms. What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the ...
... fool. There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.—Simms. What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the ...
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