The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best AuthorsM. W.. Dodd, 1853 - 432 من الصفحات |
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... pride or pleasure in finding fault ; and is wounded by the bare suspicion of such disgraceful tyranny . But advice , divested of the harshness , and yet retaining the honest warmth of truth , " is like honey put round the brim of a ...
... pride or pleasure in finding fault ; and is wounded by the bare suspicion of such disgraceful tyranny . But advice , divested of the harshness , and yet retaining the honest warmth of truth , " is like honey put round the brim of a ...
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... pride that never departs from them whilst they are alive , and they die in an opinion that they have left none wiser behind them , though they have left none behind them who ever had any esteem of their wisdom and judgment.— Clarendon ...
... pride that never departs from them whilst they are alive , and they die in an opinion that they have left none wiser behind them , though they have left none behind them who ever had any esteem of their wisdom and judgment.— Clarendon ...
الصفحة 20
... pride and folly , and an intention to do commonly more mis- chief than it can bring to pass and without doubt , of all : pas- sions which naturally disturb the mind of man , it is most in our power to extinguish , at least to suppress ...
... pride and folly , and an intention to do commonly more mis- chief than it can bring to pass and without doubt , of all : pas- sions which naturally disturb the mind of man , it is most in our power to extinguish , at least to suppress ...
الصفحة 68
... pride , ends in anger.- Cato . DISAPPOINTMENT . - It is generally known , that he who ex- pects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has any other effect than that of producing a moral ...
... pride , ends in anger.- Cato . DISAPPOINTMENT . - It is generally known , that he who ex- pects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has any other effect than that of producing a moral ...
الصفحة 80
... are grievously empty : a head without brains , a wit without judgment , a heart without hon- esty , and a purse without money . - Bishop Earle . EMULATION . - Worldly ambition is founded on pride or 80 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... are grievously empty : a head without brains , a wit without judgment , a heart without hon- esty , and a purse without money . - Bishop Earle . EMULATION . - Worldly ambition is founded on pride or 80 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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الصفحة 237 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 402 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
الصفحة 190 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
الصفحة 297 - I will give it to you in short: for ' a word to the wise is enough,' as poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him G 2. to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows :— " Friends," says he, " the taxes are indeed very heavy ; and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...
الصفحة 402 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
الصفحة 140 - He that hath a Trade hath an Estate, and He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honor; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate, nor the Office, will enable us to pay our Taxes.— If we are industrious we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, At the working Man's House Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
الصفحة 314 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
الصفحة 138 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
الصفحة 29 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
الصفحة 58 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.