Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826 |
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Side ii
... present day ; if applied to it , the simile of Virgil must be reversed , " Non trunco sed frondibus efficit Umbram . " It is in Literature as in Finance - much Paper and much Poverty may co - exist . It may happen that I myself am now ...
... present day ; if applied to it , the simile of Virgil must be reversed , " Non trunco sed frondibus efficit Umbram . " It is in Literature as in Finance - much Paper and much Poverty may co - exist . It may happen that I myself am now ...
Side iv
... presents that are directed to him , reach their destination . Some are too light , others too heavy , since it is as ... present rage for all that is marvellous and in- teresting , when writers of undoubted talent , con- sider only what ...
... presents that are directed to him , reach their destination . Some are too light , others too heavy , since it is as ... present rage for all that is marvellous and in- teresting , when writers of undoubted talent , con- sider only what ...
Side ix
... present volume , are founded on two simple truisms , that men are the same ; and that the passions are the powerful and disturbing forces , the greater or the less prevalence of which gives individuality to character . But we must not ...
... present volume , are founded on two simple truisms , that men are the same ; and that the passions are the powerful and disturbing forces , the greater or the less prevalence of which gives individuality to character . But we must not ...
Side 17
... present fame , nor even expected it ; but , ( to use his own words ) his high am- bition was , " to leave something so written to after ages , that they should not willingly let it die . " And Cato finely observed , he would much rather ...
... present fame , nor even expected it ; but , ( to use his own words ) his high am- bition was , " to leave something so written to after ages , that they should not willingly let it die . " And Cato finely observed , he would much rather ...
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... present pay and pre- sent praise . But Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song , though sung by Spencer ; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to ...
... present pay and pre- sent praise . But Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song , though sung by Spencer ; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to ...
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Side 61 - Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say...
Side 162 - No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
Side 177 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Side 77 - The truly great consider first, how they may gain the approbation of God; and secondly, that of their own conscience; having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing ; the primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men, and having effected this, the approbation of God, and their own conscience, may follow on as they can.—Lacon.
Side 103 - There are two modes of establishing our reputation : to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.— It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanie d by the latter.
Side 195 - It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
Side 82 - In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come ; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past ; in manhood, although we appear, indeed, to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.
Side 114 - The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
Side 49 - Men spend their lives in anticipations. in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured...
Side 200 - POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power...