The Rule of Life: Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences ...Parsons & Hills, 1834 - 264 sider |
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Side 8
... excellent rules for instruct- ing youth , speaks to this purpose : Give me a child that is sensible of praise , and touched with glory , and who will cry at the shame of being outdone ; and I'll keep him to his business by emulation ...
... excellent rules for instruct- ing youth , speaks to this purpose : Give me a child that is sensible of praise , and touched with glory , and who will cry at the shame of being outdone ; and I'll keep him to his business by emulation ...
Side 66
... excellent object . Aristotle . If our painful perigrination in studies be desti- tute of a supreme light , it is nothing else but a miserable kind of wandering . Scaliger . It is with the mind as with the will and appe- tites ; for ...
... excellent object . Aristotle . If our painful perigrination in studies be desti- tute of a supreme light , it is nothing else but a miserable kind of wandering . Scaliger . It is with the mind as with the will and appe- tites ; for ...
Side 74
... the subject of a wise man's pity . The most excellent of all moral virtues , is to have a low esteem of ourselves ; which has this particular advantage , that it attracts not the envy of 74 Prosperity and Adversity ,
... the subject of a wise man's pity . The most excellent of all moral virtues , is to have a low esteem of ourselves ; which has this particular advantage , that it attracts not the envy of 74 Prosperity and Adversity ,
Side 81
... excellent in it than excess ; for both rather offend in their moderation than in their violence . A faithful friend is the medicine of life , and his excellency is invaluable . Friendship has a noble effect upon all states and ...
... excellent in it than excess ; for both rather offend in their moderation than in their violence . A faithful friend is the medicine of life , and his excellency is invaluable . Friendship has a noble effect upon all states and ...
Side 84
... excellent hath most of unity : and as a river divided into several streams , is more weak , so friendship shared amongst many , is al ways languid and impotent . As it is virtue which should determine us in the choise of our friends ...
... excellent hath most of unity : and as a river divided into several streams , is more weak , so friendship shared amongst many , is al ways languid and impotent . As it is virtue which should determine us in the choise of our friends ...
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actions adversity Æsop affliction Alexander Severus Aristippus Aristotle Atheism Aurel beauty better body Charron Cicero conscience contempt conversation dangerous death discourse divine Dr Fuller duty enemy envy Epictetus esteem eternity Euripides Evermond evil excellent fault fear five crowns flatter folly fool fortune friendship give glory Gracian greatest happiness hath heart heaven honor human Isocrates judgment know thyself knowledge L'd Bacon L'Estrange learning live Lord Bacon man's mankind merit mind miserable modesty Montaigne moral nature ness never noble obliged ourselves passions Paul Leicester Ford perfection persons philosophy Plato pleasure Plut Plutarch praise precepts pride privy counsellor prosperity prudence Pythagoras reason religion reputation revenge rich says Seneca sense Shaftsbury Sherlock Socrates soul speak Spec Spectator suffer Tatler temper thee thing thou thought tion tongue true truth Vespasian vice virtue virtuous wealth whig wisdom wise worth
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Side 250 - 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 tomb-stone, 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...
Side 213 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
Side 190 - We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
Side 15 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Side 206 - The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the man of fortune, are great reliefs to a country life, and many ways useful to those who are possessed of them. But of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Side 248 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Side 224 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Side 71 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.
Side 37 - A strange thing that that part of an orator which is but superficial and rather the virtue of a player should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.