Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826 |
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Side 15
... superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times ; who , like the peak of Teneriffe , has hailed the intel- lectual sun , before its beams have reached the horizon of com- mon minds ; who , standing like Socrates , on ...
... superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times ; who , like the peak of Teneriffe , has hailed the intel- lectual sun , before its beams have reached the horizon of com- mon minds ; who , standing like Socrates , on ...
Side 21
... superior acquirement and inspiration We might also add , that the good effects of talent are uni- versal , the evil of its blemishes confined . The light and heat of the sun benefit all , and are by all enjoyed ; the spots on his ...
... superior acquirement and inspiration We might also add , that the good effects of talent are uni- versal , the evil of its blemishes confined . The light and heat of the sun benefit all , and are by all enjoyed ; the spots on his ...
Side 72
... superior to fortune , and know how to enjoy her caresses without being the slaves of her caprice . But those with whom she can complete the circle , whom she can elevate from the lowest stations into the highest , detrude them again ...
... superior to fortune , and know how to enjoy her caresses without being the slaves of her caprice . But those with whom she can complete the circle , whom she can elevate from the lowest stations into the highest , detrude them again ...
Side 118
... superior , nor Pompey an equal ; and Brutus , al- though he did not aspire himself to rule , was determined that no one else should do so . Cato , who might have done more to save his country , had he attempted less , disgusted his ...
... superior , nor Pompey an equal ; and Brutus , al- though he did not aspire himself to rule , was determined that no one else should do so . Cato , who might have done more to save his country , had he attempted less , disgusted his ...
Side 120
... superior to the strongest temptations , are qualities which may be possessed so secretly , that a man's next door neighbour shall not dis- cover them , until some unforeseen and fortunate occasion has called them forth . CCXXIX . THE ...
... superior to the strongest temptations , are qualities which may be possessed so secretly , that a man's next door neighbour shall not dis- cover them , until some unforeseen and fortunate occasion has called them forth . CCXXIX . THE ...
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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...