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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Pagina 10
... hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked ( though lock'd up in steel ) Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted . Shakspeare . 35 . Love all ; trust a few : Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy , Rather in power than use ; and ...
... hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked ( though lock'd up in steel ) Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted . Shakspeare . 35 . Love all ; trust a few : Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy , Rather in power than use ; and ...
Pagina 47
... hath not music in himself , Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds , Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus , Let not such men be trusted ...
... hath not music in himself , Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds , Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus , Let not such men be trusted ...
Pagina 139
... hath no more to bring To them , but mockeries of the past alone , And their revenge is as the tiger's spring , Deadly and quick and crushing ; yet as real Torture is theirs , what they inflict , they feel ! Byron . 681 . In If a man can ...
... hath no more to bring To them , but mockeries of the past alone , And their revenge is as the tiger's spring , Deadly and quick and crushing ; yet as real Torture is theirs , what they inflict , they feel ! Byron . 681 . In If a man can ...
Pagina 141
... thought is expressed by Horace , but is untranslatable . Hinc apicem rapax Fortuna cum stridore acuto Sustulit ; hic posuisse gaudet . - Od . xxxiv . 14 . 691 . Each man they say , his fate hath WORDS OF THE WISE . 141.
... thought is expressed by Horace , but is untranslatable . Hinc apicem rapax Fortuna cum stridore acuto Sustulit ; hic posuisse gaudet . - Od . xxxiv . 14 . 691 . Each man they say , his fate hath WORDS OF THE WISE . 141.
Pagina 142
Andrew Steinmetz. 691 . Each man they say , his fate hath in his hands ; And what he mars , or makes to loose , or save Of good or ill , is e'en self do , self have . Higgins . 692 . Even monuments of renown crumble to dust- DEATH has ...
Andrew Steinmetz. 691 . Each man they say , his fate hath in his hands ; And what he mars , or makes to loose , or save Of good or ill , is e'en self do , self have . Higgins . 692 . Even monuments of renown crumble to dust- DEATH has ...
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Pagina 104 - 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.
Pagina 47 - 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?
Pagina 75 - 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.
Pagina 72 - 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.
Pagina 45 - 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...
Pagina 47 - 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.
Pagina 104 - 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.
Pagina 286 - 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.
Pagina 260 - 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.
Pagina 13 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.