A Collection of Select Aphorisms and Maxims: With Several Historical Observations: Extracted from the Most Eminent AuthorsE. Cave, 1748 - 322 من الصفحات |
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... ; the generality of men force their genius , and lose the race by endeavouring to run beyond the post . 4 . A certain term is required to bring great defigns to ma- B turity ; turity ; thofe that can ftay fo long , are A ...
... ; the generality of men force their genius , and lose the race by endeavouring to run beyond the post . 4 . A certain term is required to bring great defigns to ma- B turity ; turity ; thofe that can ftay fo long , are A ...
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... lose their force . As the wind kindles a torch instead of extinguishing it , fo false re- ports redouble the luftre of virtue . 57 . Good intentions will never justify evil actions ; nor will a good action ever justify an ill intention ...
... lose their force . As the wind kindles a torch instead of extinguishing it , fo false re- ports redouble the luftre of virtue . 57 . Good intentions will never justify evil actions ; nor will a good action ever justify an ill intention ...
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... lose their reputation rather for want of difcretion , than for want of virtue , fo others pre- ferve theirs by their difcretion only . 297. Most people fhew in their afflictions more ambi- tion than piety ; for when any body is within ...
... lose their reputation rather for want of difcretion , than for want of virtue , fo others pre- ferve theirs by their difcretion only . 297. Most people fhew in their afflictions more ambi- tion than piety ; for when any body is within ...
الصفحة 71
... lose it . 439. It is hard to find one that a man of fpirit would be obliged to ; for generally men are as fordid in their favours , as in their interefts , and remember the obliga- tion they have beftow'd , when they forget the return ...
... lose it . 439. It is hard to find one that a man of fpirit would be obliged to ; for generally men are as fordid in their favours , as in their interefts , and remember the obliga- tion they have beftow'd , when they forget the return ...
الصفحة 73
... lose it , though in ex- change of a certainty , that must afflict us more . 451. Too many laws are a fnare , too few a weakness in government , too gentle are never obeyed , and too strict and fevere are feldom executed . 452. Women are ...
... lose it , though in ex- change of a certainty , that must afflict us more . 451. Too many laws are a fnare , too few a weakness in government , too gentle are never obeyed , and too strict and fevere are feldom executed . 452. Women are ...
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الصفحة 320 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
الصفحة 27 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
الصفحة 192 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence?
الصفحة 310 - Earth in the following manner. ' For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns.
الصفحة 153 - IT is of the last importance to season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the cares of the world, the heats of youth, or the allurements of vice, it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion, consideration, age, or misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and overlaid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered.
الصفحة 27 - ... and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection, which are to make us happy in the next. The seeds of those spiritual joys and raptures, which are to rise up and flourish in the soul to all eternity, must be planted in her during this her present state of probation. In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect of a religious life.
الصفحة 208 - In fine, the defect in naturals seems to proceed from want of quickness, activity, and motion in the intellectual faculties, whereby they are deprived of reason; whereas madmen, on the other side, seem to suffer by the other extreme : for they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
الصفحة 192 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
الصفحة 209 - I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any...
الصفحة 84 - I must also observe with Longinus, that the productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author, which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.