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
Favoritism, Effect of, on children, 586
Favors, One likes better to, 587
Feast, What makes the best, 588
Feasting, May make fasting, 589
Accustom early in your youth, 590
Feelings, When too fine, 591
Fidelity, True as needle to pole, etc., 592
Fireside, My own, 593
Fish, All that a, drinks, 594
Flattery, What kind of, hurts, 595
No quality will get a man, 596
Flowers, Children of the meadows, 597
Daughters of earth and sun, 598
Effect of, on the world, 599
Enjoy the air they breathe, 600
How many a, 601
I never cast a, away, 602
Pledges of fruit, 603
Fool, Advice to, effect of, 604
Everyone is sometimes, 605
How discovered, 606
One needs wit to deal with, 607
One who says he is always right, is, 608
White hairs ill become, 609
Fools, If all wore white caps, what then? 610
Tell what they intend to do, 611
Force, Where it prevails, right dies, 612
Foresight, Be not stingy of seed corn, 613
Forest, An idyl of, 614
Forget, Ability to, token of greatness, 615
Forgiveness, Asked, with repentance, 616
Easier to whom, 617
God-like, etc., 618
How beautiful, etc., 619
Lasts while we love, 620
Lines on, 621
Not given, destroys forgiveness, 622
Not of the world, 623
Of part only of wrong, what, 624
Try its effect, 625
Who do, and who do not, forgive, 626
Fortune, Change of, dangerous, 627
Continued good, not security, 628
Gives too much to, 629
Good sometimes without seeking, 630
Good that comes seldom, 631
Its vicissitude, 632
Hardest gained, longest kept, 633
Knocks once at every door, 634
Let it not elate or depress, 635
Manners sometimes make, 636
May change in a day, 637
Often harmful to virtue, 638
Smiles on those who labor, 639
Whil'st favor'd, friends, you smiled, 640
Free-thinker, One rebuked, 641
Freedom, Once gained, hard to, 642
Weeps, when, 643
Friend, Attack not, but defend absent, 644
Be mine, teach me to be thine, 645
Flattering, like one's shadow, 646
Hand of an old, 647
How to make a, 648
If you have one, be happy, 649
In misfortune, go quickly to, 650
Leave not, in adversity, 651
Lose not old, to gain new, 652
Lost by disputing with, 653
Lost by lending money to, 654
Love thine, 655
More dishonorable to distrust, etc., 656
No life complete without, 657
None, who ceases to be for slight causes, 658
Not hidden in adversity, 659
Oblige him to-day, 660
Old, the best mirror, 661
Shake not off, 662
Stab from, hard to heal, 663
Tells not truth, when, 664
When sure of, 665
Who never good, 666
Who sticks closer than brother, 667
Wink not at his vices, 668
World a wilderness without, 669
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