Two Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts: A Storehouse of Memorable Utterances by Master MindsChristian Herald, 1897 - 320 pages |
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... spirit -Longfellow . Seizes the prompt occasion , makes the thought Start into instant action , and at once Plans and performs , resolves and executes . -Hannah More . I am of opinion that there is nothing of any kind so beautiful , but ...
... spirit -Longfellow . Seizes the prompt occasion , makes the thought Start into instant action , and at once Plans and performs , resolves and executes . -Hannah More . I am of opinion that there is nothing of any kind so beautiful , but ...
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... spirits there ! No thought , no sorrow , and no care ; That age might for a while throw by Its wrinkles and its gravity . -Newffer . Youth changes its inclinations through the fever of its blood , and old age perseveres in them from ...
... spirits there ! No thought , no sorrow , and no care ; That age might for a while throw by Its wrinkles and its gravity . -Newffer . Youth changes its inclinations through the fever of its blood , and old age perseveres in them from ...
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... spirit of wisdom , of which many enjoy the fruit , for by him cities are preserved , and he himself specially feels the value of the precious gift . -Homerus . Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as others . He gets ...
... spirit of wisdom , of which many enjoy the fruit , for by him cities are preserved , and he himself specially feels the value of the precious gift . -Homerus . Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as others . He gets ...
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... spirits may be good and the viands admirable , but , until you taste them , you do not know their flavor ; prin- ciples may be good , but until you learn them you do not know their value . Hence it is by learn- ing that a man knows his ...
... spirits may be good and the viands admirable , but , until you taste them , you do not know their flavor ; prin- ciples may be good , but until you learn them you do not know their value . Hence it is by learn- ing that a man knows his ...
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... spirit of a man and pros- trate him in the dust seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex , and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sublimity . -Washington Irving . LOVE ...
... spirit of a man and pros- trate him in the dust seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex , and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sublimity . -Washington Irving . LOVE ...
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Page 45 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 264 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 278 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 274 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 90 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 288 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 51 - Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words...
Page 273 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 215 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 152 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —