Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... heavens are filled with clouds , when the earth swims in rain , and all nature wears a louring countenance , I withdraw myself from these un- comfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art ; where I meet with shining landscapes ...
... heavens are filled with clouds , when the earth swims in rain , and all nature wears a louring countenance , I withdraw myself from these un- comfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art ; where I meet with shining landscapes ...
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... heaven for others , and shut themselves out . - Fuller . CLXIV . If we did not take great pains , and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature , our nature would never corrupt us . - Clarendon . CLXV . One would think that the ...
... heaven for others , and shut themselves out . - Fuller . CLXIV . If we did not take great pains , and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature , our nature would never corrupt us . - Clarendon . CLXV . One would think that the ...
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... heaven . The Brothers Shirley . CCXC . What is said by the chemists of their darling mercury , is perhaps true of every body through the whole creation , that , if a thousand lives should be spent upon it , all its properties would not ...
... heaven . The Brothers Shirley . CCXC . What is said by the chemists of their darling mercury , is perhaps true of every body through the whole creation , that , if a thousand lives should be spent upon it , all its properties would not ...
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... heaven sent , That much in little - all in nought - Content . From Wilbye's Madrigals , 1598 . CCCXXXV . The little mind who loves itself , will write and think with the vulgar ; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric , and scorn ...
... heaven sent , That much in little - all in nought - Content . From Wilbye's Madrigals , 1598 . CCCXXXV . The little mind who loves itself , will write and think with the vulgar ; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric , and scorn ...
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... heaven , when your devotion Walks upon crutches . CCCLVIII . Would you taste the tranquil scene ? Be sure your bosoms be serene : Devoid of hate , devoid of strife , Devoid of all that poisons life ; And much it ' vails you , in their ...
... heaven , when your devotion Walks upon crutches . CCCLVIII . Would you taste the tranquil scene ? Be sure your bosoms be serene : Devoid of hate , devoid of strife , Devoid of all that poisons life ; And much it ' vails you , in their ...
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