The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best AuthorsM. W.. Dodd, 1853 - 432 Seiten |
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... truth to which its pages introduce us . There is something ennobling in the thought , that we are here brought in contact with a great and dignified assem- blage of illustrious minds , chiefly of the past , INTRODUCTION . vii.
... truth to which its pages introduce us . There is something ennobling in the thought , that we are here brought in contact with a great and dignified assem- blage of illustrious minds , chiefly of the past , INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... truth is not at the bottom , nature will al- ways be endeavoring to return , and will peep out and betray herself one time or other . - Tillotson . ACTIONS . - The actions of men are like the index of a book ; they point out what is ...
... truth is not at the bottom , nature will al- ways be endeavoring to return , and will peep out and betray herself one time or other . - Tillotson . ACTIONS . - The actions of men are like the index of a book ; they point out what is ...
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... truths should be de- livered in the softest terms , and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect ... truth , " is like honey put round the brim of a vessel full of wormwood . " Even this 14 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... truths should be de- livered in the softest terms , and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect ... truth , " is like honey put round the brim of a vessel full of wormwood . " Even this 14 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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... truth they are the very same they practised as long as they were able ; they talk much of their observation and experience , in order to be obeyed in things they understand not , and out of vanity and morosity contract a pride that ...
... truth they are the very same they practised as long as they were able ; they talk much of their observation and experience , in order to be obeyed in things they understand not , and out of vanity and morosity contract a pride that ...
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... truth in their breasts , and show , like jugglers , another thing in their mouths ; to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest , and to make a good countenance without the help of a good will . — Sallust ...
... truth in their breasts , and show , like jugglers , another thing in their mouths ; to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest , and to make a good countenance without the help of a good will . — Sallust ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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,...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.