Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
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... wise in learning , who cannot tell the age of the world , and count hundreds of years : mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising thence ; but that he may be able to give some tolerable account thereof . He is also ...
... wise in learning , who cannot tell the age of the world , and count hundreds of years : mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising thence ; but that he may be able to give some tolerable account thereof . He is also ...
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... -0 . A man in much business must either make himself a knave , or else the world will make him a fool ; and if the injury went no farther than the being laughed at , a wise man would content himself with the revenge of re- LACONICS . 13.
... -0 . A man in much business must either make himself a knave , or else the world will make him a fool ; and if the injury went no farther than the being laughed at , a wise man would content himself with the revenge of re- LACONICS . 13.
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John Timbs. wise man would content himself with the revenge of re- taliation but the case is much worse ; for these civil can- nibals too , as well as the wild ones , not only dance about such a taken stranger , but at last devour him ...
John Timbs. wise man would content himself with the revenge of re- taliation but the case is much worse ; for these civil can- nibals too , as well as the wild ones , not only dance about such a taken stranger , but at last devour him ...
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... wise , by living as many ages as have past since the beginning of the world . His books enable him to maintain discourse , who , besides the stock of his own experience , may spend on the com- mon purse of his reading . This directs him ...
... wise , by living as many ages as have past since the beginning of the world . His books enable him to maintain discourse , who , besides the stock of his own experience , may spend on the com- mon purse of his reading . This directs him ...
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... wise and good man may be pre- vailed on to game ; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man . - Lavater . LXXXII . 82 Jarres concealed are half reconciled ; which if gene- rally known , ' tis a double ...
... wise and good man may be pre- vailed on to game ; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man . - Lavater . LXXXII . 82 Jarres concealed are half reconciled ; which if gene- rally known , ' tis a double ...
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Seite 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Seite 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Seite 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Seite 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 224 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Seite 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Seite 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Seite 172 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Seite 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Seite 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...