Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to Unlock the Literature of All AgesBest thoughts publishing Company, 1904 - 643 pàgines |
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... believe , classic- ally educated , yet it would be hard to name an American author who has a greater command of all the resources of ex- pression . His style varies in excellence . - sometimes , per- haps , lacks simplicity : but , as a ...
... believe , classic- ally educated , yet it would be hard to name an American author who has a greater command of all the resources of ex- pression . His style varies in excellence . - sometimes , per- haps , lacks simplicity : but , as a ...
Pàgina 79
... believe what we cannot see . - Dryden . Strong minds can equally embrace great things and small . - Jonson . Unbend the mind , or it will be either weakened or broken . -Sir P. Sidney . Richest jewels soonest wear their settings ; so ...
... believe what we cannot see . - Dryden . Strong minds can equally embrace great things and small . - Jonson . Unbend the mind , or it will be either weakened or broken . -Sir P. Sidney . Richest jewels soonest wear their settings ; so ...
Pàgina 118
... believe that the party is the government itself , and even that in extreme instances the government exists to perpetuate and enrich the party . The university is , therefore , to impress upon the people the truth that parties exist in ...
... believe that the party is the government itself , and even that in extreme instances the government exists to perpetuate and enrich the party . The university is , therefore , to impress upon the people the truth that parties exist in ...
Pàgina 126
... believe that the proper demands of both liberal and professional training can be met where it is attempted to cover both courses in six years . Even where the requisite subjects are all covered by brilliant students the value of the ...
... believe that the proper demands of both liberal and professional training can be met where it is attempted to cover both courses in six years . Even where the requisite subjects are all covered by brilliant students the value of the ...
Pàgina 137
... believe that this form of school , in all regions where good soil makes farming profitable and supports a fairly dense rural population , will largely displace the little school- house . These schools are superior to the honored little ...
... believe that this form of school , in all regions where good soil makes farming profitable and supports a fairly dense rural population , will largely displace the little school- house . These schools are superior to the honored little ...
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Pàgina 199 - I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels...
Pàgina 199 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Pàgina 199 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pàgina 68 - Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Pàgina 199 - 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.
Pàgina 138 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Pàgina 199 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Pàgina 199 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Pàgina 193 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Pàgina 215 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.