Christian ethics and wise sayings, by a presbyter of the Church of EnglandJ. Nisbet & Company, 1883 - 277 pages |
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... man's shining scene : Prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; As night to stars , woe lustre gives to man . Thus Spenser lived , with mean repast Content , depressed by penury , and pined In foreign realm , yet not debased his verse By ...
... man's shining scene : Prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; As night to stars , woe lustre gives to man . Thus Spenser lived , with mean repast Content , depressed by penury , and pined In foreign realm , yet not debased his verse By ...
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... man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself . His friends were summon'd on a ... man's head . It was a saying of Cato the elder that wise men learnt more by fools , than fools by wise men . The ...
... man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself . His friends were summon'd on a ... man's head . It was a saying of Cato the elder that wise men learnt more by fools , than fools by wise men . The ...
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... Man's boundless avarice exceeds , And on his neighbours round about him feeds . Many an avaricious man thus boasts : - I am a man That from my first have been inclined to thrift . * * * Let them hiss on ( he cries ) , While , in my own ...
... Man's boundless avarice exceeds , And on his neighbours round about him feeds . Many an avaricious man thus boasts : - I am a man That from my first have been inclined to thrift . * * * Let them hiss on ( he cries ) , While , in my own ...
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... man should be delighted with beauty ? -that it was a question none but a blind man could ask ; since any beautiful object doth so attract the sight of all men , that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it . What is beauty ...
... man should be delighted with beauty ? -that it was a question none but a blind man could ask ; since any beautiful object doth so attract the sight of all men , that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it . What is beauty ...
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... man commands our esteem , but it is the benevolent who wins our affections . John Kyrle , the " Man of Ross " in ... man's life . Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness , when bequeathed by those who , when alive ...
... man commands our esteem , but it is the benevolent who wins our affections . John Kyrle , the " Man of Ross " in ... man's life . Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness , when bequeathed by those who , when alive ...
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Popular passages
Page 190 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
Page 234 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 111 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Page 142 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 49 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking.
Page 147 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 269 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 43 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 144 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 98 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.