Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed sentences, remarks and apophthegms of the greatest geniuses of ancient and modern times. To which are added, Thoughts, from the diary of a young man. By A. SteinmetzAndrew Steinmetz 1838 |
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Página 84
... vanity of the greater number . To offend nobody , we should have no ideas but those of the world ; as man is then without genius and without enemies . - Ib . 318 . For what are riches , empire , power , But larger means to gratify the ...
... vanity of the greater number . To offend nobody , we should have no ideas but those of the world ; as man is then without genius and without enemies . - Ib . 318 . For what are riches , empire , power , But larger means to gratify the ...
Página 90
... vanity ; where there is vanity , there will be folly . - Ib . 348 . To raise esteem , we must benefit others : to pro- cure love , we must please them.—Ib. 349 . He that is loudly praised will be clamorously censured . He that rises ...
... vanity ; where there is vanity , there will be folly . - Ib . 348 . To raise esteem , we must benefit others : to pro- cure love , we must please them.—Ib. 349 . He that is loudly praised will be clamorously censured . He that rises ...
Página 95
... vanity , sometimes from indolence , often from fear , and almost always from a mixture of all three . - Ib . 383 . That conduct often seems ridiculous , the secret reasons of which are wise and solid . - Ib . 384 . Nothing flatters our ...
... vanity , sometimes from indolence , often from fear , and almost always from a mixture of all three . - Ib . 383 . That conduct often seems ridiculous , the secret reasons of which are wise and solid . - Ib . 384 . Nothing flatters our ...
Página 99
... vanity gives currency . - Ib . 417 . Men sometimes think they hate flattery ; but they only hate the manner of it.-Ib. 418 . The happiness and misery of men , depend no less on their temper than their fortune . - Ib . 419 . The ...
... vanity gives currency . - Ib . 417 . Men sometimes think they hate flattery ; but they only hate the manner of it.-Ib. 418 . The happiness and misery of men , depend no less on their temper than their fortune . - Ib . 419 . The ...
Página 103
... vanity , than malice . - Ib . 454 . We speak little when vanity does not prompt us , -Ib . 455 . As it is a characteristic of great wits WORDS OF THE WISE . 103.
... vanity , than malice . - Ib . 454 . We speak little when vanity does not prompt us , -Ib . 455 . As it is a characteristic of great wits WORDS OF THE WISE . 103.
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Página 104 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 47 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 75 - tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, . And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 72 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Página 45 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...
Página 47 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 104 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 286 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 260 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Página 13 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.