A Book of Golden ThoughtsMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 288 páginas |
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... weak mind , despatch of a strong one . A weak man in office , like a squirrel in a cage , is labouring eternally , but to no purpose , and in constant motion , without getting on a jot : like a turnstile , he is in every body's way ...
... weak mind , despatch of a strong one . A weak man in office , like a squirrel in a cage , is labouring eternally , but to no purpose , and in constant motion , without getting on a jot : like a turnstile , he is in every body's way ...
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... weakness of an ambitious man , which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with , and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it . Addison . EQUALITY . Il est faux que l'égalité soit une loi ...
... weakness of an ambitious man , which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with , and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it . Addison . EQUALITY . Il est faux que l'égalité soit une loi ...
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... weak , becomes a stepping- stone in the pathway of the strong . Carlyle . PROGRESS . Es soll nicht genügen daß man Schritte thue die einst zum Ziele führen , sondern jeder Schritt soll Ziel sein . FLATTERY . Goethe . La flatterie est ...
... weak , becomes a stepping- stone in the pathway of the strong . Carlyle . PROGRESS . Es soll nicht genügen daß man Schritte thue die einst zum Ziele führen , sondern jeder Schritt soll Ziel sein . FLATTERY . Goethe . La flatterie est ...
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... weak and faulty ; and when these places are properly repaired , the whole building becomes more firm and solid than it was formerly . Thomas Reid . LIVELY WIT OF LESS VALUE THAN JUST PERCEPTION . Ce n'est point un grand avantage d'avoir ...
... weak and faulty ; and when these places are properly repaired , the whole building becomes more firm and solid than it was formerly . Thomas Reid . LIVELY WIT OF LESS VALUE THAN JUST PERCEPTION . Ce n'est point un grand avantage d'avoir ...
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... turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them . Without it , learning is pedantry , and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to 124 A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
... turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them . Without it , learning is pedantry , and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to 124 A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
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Addison Antoninus authority autres Bacon beauty Bishop Butler BOOK BRILLIANT THOUGHTS Bruyère c'est Carlyle character Cicero Coleridge conscience Dieu discern divine doth DRESS Epictetus être faculty fait fault faut feeling FLATTERY friendship genius give Goethe grand habit happiness hath heart heaven hommes human ignorant imagination imitation IMMORTALITY intellect J. S. Mill James Martineau Jean Paul Richter Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Joubert judgment justice knowledge l'âme l'esprit La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld learning live man's mankind mean mind MODESTY Montesquieu moral n'est nature naturel never noble object one's-self opinions ourselves passions pensée perfect Petit-Senn peut philosophy Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry praise qu'il qu'on quod reason religion Rochefoucauld Ruskin s'il Selected and arranged sense sentiment Sir William Hamilton soul tact Talent talk taste things Thomas Reid thou tion tout true truth understanding vanity Vauvenargues vice virtue Wahrheit words
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Página 117 - ... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Página 91 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Página 59 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 128 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Página 124 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Página 54 - But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Página 65 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Página 174 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Página 98 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.