Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 halaman |
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... Action . Action can have no effect upon rea- sonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as ...
... Action . Action can have no effect upon rea- sonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as ...
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... actions can never give a just estimate of us , since there are many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in actions . — Addison . Mark this well , ye proud men of action ! Ye are , after all , nothing but unconscious ...
... actions can never give a just estimate of us , since there are many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in actions . — Addison . Mark this well , ye proud men of action ! Ye are , after all , nothing but unconscious ...
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... actions ; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur . - Colton . Honorable descent is in all nations greatly es- teemed ; besides , it is to be expected that the chil- dren of men of worth will be like their fathers , for ...
... actions ; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur . - Colton . Honorable descent is in all nations greatly es- teemed ; besides , it is to be expected that the chil- dren of men of worth will be like their fathers , for ...
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... action , like a hot steed , it stumbles in its way . Savage . - Bad temper is its own scourge . Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter . A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim . - Charles Buxton . Above all , gentlemen ...
... action , like a hot steed , it stumbles in its way . Savage . - Bad temper is its own scourge . Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter . A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim . - Charles Buxton . Above all , gentlemen ...
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... action and civil use , as being the edge tools of speech , which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs . - Bacon . - Exclusively of the abstract sciences , the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of ...
... action and civil use , as being the edge tools of speech , which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs . - Bacon . - Exclusively of the abstract sciences , the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of ...
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