Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed sentences, remarks and apophthegms of the greatest geniuses of ancient and modern times. To which are added, Thoughts, from the diary of a young man. By A. SteinmetzAndrew Steinmetz 1838 |
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第 15 頁
... body's duty , is therefore nobody's duty , and which , like- " The child whom many father's share Has never known a father's care . " 56 . Ib . In the evening of a long , toilsome life , if a man were to be obliged solemnly to declare ...
... body's duty , is therefore nobody's duty , and which , like- " The child whom many father's share Has never known a father's care . " 56 . Ib . In the evening of a long , toilsome life , if a man were to be obliged solemnly to declare ...
第 36 頁
... body , as well as to a bad education . - D'Israeli . 104 . There are crimes for which men are hanged , but of which they might easily have been cured by physical means . Persons out of their senses with love , by throwing themselves ...
... body , as well as to a bad education . - D'Israeli . 104 . There are crimes for which men are hanged , but of which they might easily have been cured by physical means . Persons out of their senses with love , by throwing themselves ...
第 37 頁
... body sue the mind before a court of judicature for damages , it would be found that the mind would prove to have been a ruinous tenant to its landlord . - Plutarch . 112 . Our domestic happiness often depends on the state of our biliary ...
... body sue the mind before a court of judicature for damages , it would be found that the mind would prove to have been a ruinous tenant to its landlord . - Plutarch . 112 . Our domestic happiness often depends on the state of our biliary ...
第 53 頁
... is , she cries when she sees others happy . Envy is certainly one of the meanest , and most tormenting of all passions , since there is hardly any body , that has not some- thing for an envious man to envy : so that WORDS OF THE WISE . 53.
... is , she cries when she sees others happy . Envy is certainly one of the meanest , and most tormenting of all passions , since there is hardly any body , that has not some- thing for an envious man to envy : so that WORDS OF THE WISE . 53.
第 54 頁
... body else so.— Chesterfield . 183 . Most persons who write ill , do so because they aim at writing better than they can , by which means they acquire a formal and unnatural style . Whereas to write well , we must write easily and ...
... body else so.— Chesterfield . 183 . Most persons who write ill , do so because they aim at writing better than they can , by which means they acquire a formal and unnatural style . Whereas to write well , we must write easily and ...
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第 104 頁 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
第 47 頁 - 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?
第 75 頁 - tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, . And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
第 72 頁 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
第 45 頁 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...
第 47 頁 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
第 104 頁 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
第 286 頁 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
第 260 頁 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
第 13 頁 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.