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... mankind who condenses the great thoughts and rules of life into short sentences that are easily impressed on the memory and recur promptly to the mind.” Such laconic thoughts Swift compares to “burning glasses, as they collect the ...
... mankind who condenses the great thoughts and rules of life into short sentences that are easily impressed on the memory and recur promptly to the mind.” Such laconic thoughts Swift compares to “burning glasses, as they collect the ...
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... mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.—Addison. How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in comparison with ...
... mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.—Addison. How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in comparison with ...
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... mankind, yet Almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, though bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.—Izaak Walton. The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as ...
... mankind, yet Almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, though bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.—Izaak Walton. The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as ...
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... mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.—H. Brooke. The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire him to consider that as ...
... mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.—H. Brooke. The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire him to consider that as ...
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... mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.—Byron. Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.—Hume. The slave has ...
... mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.—Byron. Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.—Hume. The slave has ...
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