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
Obstinate, held by opinions, 1241
Of high station, many blasts to shake, 1242
Of one idea, not to be reasoned with, 1243
Old, life like what, 1244
Perfected by trials, 1245
Pleasant, described, 1246
Poor, for want of, or from too many friends, 1247
Poor, unnoticed, 1248
Produced by nature, not by art, 1249
Real, finds not excuses for self, 1250
Should not be alone, 1251
Silent, sometimes deep and dangerous, 1252
Social creature, 1253
Strive not too anxiously, 1254
Swollen by prosperity, shrunk by adversity, 1255
The difference between, 1256
The unpunctual, 1257
Though surly, may be honest, 1258
True, never frets about place in the world, 1259
He had nothing and was, 1260
Weak, easily moulded, 1261
Well bred, acknowledges a fault, 1262
Well bred, always sociable, 1263
What did he leave at death, 1264
When act of equals, angel's, 1265
When he may be known truly, 1266
When to make a world for himself, 1267
Who deserves name of, 1268
Who excels, sought after, 1269
Who masters the world, 1270
Who thinks, governs, etc., 1271
Wise, shapes himself to environments, 1272
Working, hunger enters not his house, 1273
Manners, Coldness of, freezes, 1274
Contrasted with character, 1275
Mirror man's image, 1276
People with good, quiet, etc., 1277
Shadows of virtue, 1278
Vulgar people cannot be still, 1279
Want of, in society, unpardonable, 1280
Mansion, Be not inferior to thine, 1281
Marriage, A bloom or a blight, 1282
A maiden's trust in, 1283
Advice on, by Themistocles, 1284
Be careful before, 1285
Bond should be broken only by death, 1286
Can two live as cheaply as one? 1287
Choice in--Samuel Johnson, 1288
Choose not alone a proper, 1289
Effect on romance and history, 1290
Like public feast, 1291
Like shears, how, 1292
Marry in your own rank, 1293
Newly wedded, rule for, 1294
One seldom weds first love, 1295
Pious elder said to his son, 1296
Reason for many unhappy ones, 1297
Should be state of equality, 1298
The dying moments of a single life, 1299
The treasures of the deep are not so precious, 1300
Two views--beware, 1301
Vow, lines on, 1302
Wed for character, not money, 1303
Married, A girl should look happy, 1304
Marshall, Chief Justice, anecdote of, 1305
Master, Be sometimes blind and deaf, 1306
If your own, 1307
Our, is our, 1308
Matrimony, Knot tied with tongue, etc., 1309
Look for a help-mate in, 1310
Sum of happiness when, 1311
Two views of, 1312
Maxims, From the Persian, 1313
Meals, The, which are eaten in, 1314
Meat, How poor, and rich get, 1315
Melancholy, Johnson said of, 1316
Memory, All complain, but not of judgment, 1317
Ideas registered by attention, 1318
Prayer on the subject of, 1319
Sweetest, when without regret, 1320
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