Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesMethuen & Company, 1903 - 163 sider |
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... rest where he began his complaint . - L'Estrange's Fables . And follows so the ever - rolling year With profitable labour to his grave . THE PHILOSOPHER . THE name of " Wise " seems to me , O Phædrus , a great matter , and to belong to ...
... rest where he began his complaint . - L'Estrange's Fables . And follows so the ever - rolling year With profitable labour to his grave . THE PHILOSOPHER . THE name of " Wise " seems to me , O Phædrus , a great matter , and to belong to ...
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... rest escapes us as a matter of course ; and we easily conclude that the idea in our minds and the image in nature are one and the same . But in fact we only see a very small part of nature , and make an imperfect abstraction of the ...
... rest escapes us as a matter of course ; and we easily conclude that the idea in our minds and the image in nature are one and the same . But in fact we only see a very small part of nature , and make an imperfect abstraction of the ...
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... parliaments to tea - tables ; for " Vanity is of a divisive not of an uniting , nature . " THE GUILTY MAN MAY escape , but he cannot rest sure of doing so . - Epicurus . " RIVEN BREEKS SIT STILL . " 66 LIBERTY . WHAT IS IT ? HE IS WISE 70.
... parliaments to tea - tables ; for " Vanity is of a divisive not of an uniting , nature . " THE GUILTY MAN MAY escape , but he cannot rest sure of doing so . - Epicurus . " RIVEN BREEKS SIT STILL . " 66 LIBERTY . WHAT IS IT ? HE IS WISE 70.
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... .- Rochefoucauld . " LOVE ASKS FAITH , AND FAITH FIRMNESS . " " OUR TIME Is like our money : when we change a guinea , the shillings escape as things of small account : when we break a day by idleness in the morning , the rest of 83.
... .- Rochefoucauld . " LOVE ASKS FAITH , AND FAITH FIRMNESS . " " OUR TIME Is like our money : when we change a guinea , the shillings escape as things of small account : when we break a day by idleness in the morning , the rest of 83.
Side 84
... rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes . - Sir W. Scott . EXPENSE . COMMONLY it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings . A man ought warily to begin charges , which once begun will ...
... rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes . - Sir W. Scott . EXPENSE . COMMONLY it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings . A man ought warily to begin charges , which once begun will ...
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Adam and Eve Æsop Apophthegms aright asked Atheist begin better Boswell called Carlyle commonly death deed discourse doth English Enlighten self-interest Epictetus Fable faculty faith fear feeling fool friends genius gentleman give Goethe gold happy hath heart heaven HORACE WALPOLE human idle James Boswell Johnson kind Know thyself less liberty Lion live look Lord Madame Du Deffand maketh man's matter men's mind miseries morals nature ness never noble ourselves passions perhaps Phædrus Philosopher Plato POLONIUS poor pray prejudice Prince proverb qu'elle reason religion rest rich Richter ROLLING STONE says Bacon says Fuller sense sentence Sir Philip Sidney Socrates solecism soul Tacitus talk tell thee Themistocles thine thing thou art thought thyself tion true Truisms truth verse virtue vulgar whole wisdom wise wishes write