Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical orderRichardson, John Purver
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Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical order
Richardson, John Purver
Quotations
Though safe thou think'st thy treasure lies,
Hidden in chests from human eyes,
A fire may come, and it may be
Bury'd, my friend, as far from thee.
Thy vessel that yon ocean stems,
Loaded with golden dust and gems,
Purchased with so much pains and cost,
Yet in a tempest may be lost.
Pimps, and a lot of others,--a thankless crew,
Priests, pickpockets, and lawyers too,
All help by several ways to drain,
Thanking themselves for what they gain.
The liberal are secure alone,
For what we frankly give, forever is our own.
--_Lord Lansdowne._
1110
LIBERALITY.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
--_Cicero._
1111
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.
--_James Dyer._
1112
A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far
and wide.
--_Bishop Warburton._
1113
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
1114
One lie
Demands for its support a hundred more.
1115
One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.
--_Owen._
1116
Life is a journey, and they only who have traveled a considerable way in
it, are fit to direct those who are setting out.
1117
A term of life is set to every man,
Which is but short; and pass it no one can.
--_Burton._
1118
Better, ten-fold, is a life that is sunny,
Than a life that has nothing to boast of but money.
1119
I have found by experience that many who have spent all their lives in
cities, contract not only an effeminacy of habit but of thinking.
--_Goldsmith._
1120
LIFE--DIFFERENT AGES OF.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at
forty, the judgment.
--_Gratian._
1121
I find one of the great things in this world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving.
1122
There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them as we will.
--_Shakespeare._
1123
The husband and the wife must, like two wheels, support the chariot of
domestic life, otherwise it must stop.
1124
NOT A CANDIDATE.
The following well-merited rebuke by a slave to his master, shows that
persons occupying mean positions in this life are sometimes superior to
those above them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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