Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent British Poets, Nide 6J. Sharpe, 1810 |
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... Virtue , like the Sun , retains its resplendence , though frequently obscured by clouds , Virtue dwells not on the tongue , but fixes its abode in the heart . Misfortunes are often unavoidable ; but they may be disarmed of their ...
... Virtue , like the Sun , retains its resplendence , though frequently obscured by clouds , Virtue dwells not on the tongue , but fixes its abode in the heart . Misfortunes are often unavoidable ; but they may be disarmed of their ...
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... virtue . Thrift , diligence , and method in business , are three necessary qualifications to make a man rich . It is far from greatness of spirit to persist in errour ; perfection is not the attribute of man . The court hypocrite ...
... virtue . Thrift , diligence , and method in business , are three necessary qualifications to make a man rich . It is far from greatness of spirit to persist in errour ; perfection is not the attribute of man . The court hypocrite ...
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... virtue's picture which we find in books , Virtue must be our trade and study , nor our chance . Tell me what life you lead , and I will tell you how you shall die . He is in a low form , who never thinks beyond this short life . P Vices ...
... virtue's picture which we find in books , Virtue must be our trade and study , nor our chance . Tell me what life you lead , and I will tell you how you shall die . He is in a low form , who never thinks beyond this short life . P Vices ...
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BOOK XI | 1 |
Marriage compared with single Life Bishop Taylor | 10 |
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affections agreeable beauty better cern cheerfulness common consider conversation Coriolanus Crito danger death debt desire doth endeavour enemy evil father faults fear folly fool fortune gamester give hand happiness hath hear heart Heaven honest honour human humour keep kind king labour laudanum laws learning less liberty lies long live look looking-glass lords spiritual man's mankind marriage master men's mind ministers of religion mother nature nerally never noble observed pain passions peace perhaps persons pleasing pleasure Poor Richard says praise prosperity racter reason religion revenge rich Rome Scythian seldom sorrow soul speak spirit tell temper tender thee thing thou thought tion true truth vanity Veturia vice virtue virtuous Volsci Volscian Volumnia wife wine wisdom wise woman women word young youth