A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward T. Y. Crowell, 1889 - 701 Seiten |
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... person who thinks himself to be somebody , there is nothing more disgraceful than to ex- hibit himself as held in honor , not on his own account , but for the renown of his forefathers ; for hereditary honor is to descendants a treasure ...
... person who thinks himself to be somebody , there is nothing more disgraceful than to ex- hibit himself as held in honor , not on his own account , but for the renown of his forefathers ; for hereditary honor is to descendants a treasure ...
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... persons . 385 Hume : Essays . XIII . Of the Rise and the Prog- ress of the Arts and Sciences . Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice : other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind ; that which soothes ...
... persons . 385 Hume : Essays . XIII . Of the Rise and the Prog- ress of the Arts and Sciences . Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice : other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind ; that which soothes ...
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... person who has examined the evi- dences of religion for himself , and who accepts them because , after examination , he is satisfied of their genuineness and sufficiency . 437 Hamerton : Modern Frenchmen . Henri Perreyne . A man may be ...
... person who has examined the evi- dences of religion for himself , and who accepts them because , after examination , he is satisfied of their genuineness and sufficiency . 437 Hamerton : Modern Frenchmen . Henri Perreyne . A man may be ...
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... persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million . 515 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Progress of Culture . In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight . He who has once known its satisfactions is ...
... persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million . 515 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Progress of Culture . In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight . He who has once known its satisfactions is ...
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... persons . 906 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . VI . Discourse . Canon of Conversation . Debate is angular , conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity . 907 A. Bronson Alcott : Concord Days . May . Conversation . Debate ...
... persons . 906 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . VI . Discourse . Canon of Conversation . Debate is angular , conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity . 907 A. Bronson Alcott : Concord Days . May . Conversation . Debate ...
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Seite 457 - 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 56 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 254 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Seite 546 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Seite 326 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move : the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Seite 120 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Seite 57 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Seite 279 - 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.
Seite 140 - Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, From experience: in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Seite 346 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.