The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... knowledge ; and which he may continue to peruse , lay down , and take up at pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PHILADELPHIA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO ...
... knowledge ; and which he may continue to peruse , lay down , and take up at pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PHILADELPHIA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO ...
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... Knowledge . - There are in knowledge these two excellencies ; first , that it offers to every man , the most selfish and the most exalted , his peculiar induce- ment to good . It says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve ...
... Knowledge . - There are in knowledge these two excellencies ; first , that it offers to every man , the most selfish and the most exalted , his peculiar induce- ment to good . It says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve ...
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... knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he only coveted gold upon its altar . - E ...
... knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he only coveted gold upon its altar . - E ...
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... knowledge ; and though men may be kept ignorant , they cannot be made ignorant . The mind , in discovering truth , acts in the same manner as the eye in discovering objects , when once the object has been seen , it is impossible to put ...
... knowledge ; and though men may be kept ignorant , they cannot be made ignorant . The mind , in discovering truth , acts in the same manner as the eye in discovering objects , when once the object has been seen , it is impossible to put ...
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... Knowledge . - The strong barriers which confined the stores of wisdom have been thrown down , and a flood overspreads the earth : old establishments are adapting themselves to the spirit of the age ; new establish- ments are rising ...
... Knowledge . - The strong barriers which confined the stores of wisdom have been thrown down , and a flood overspreads the earth : old establishments are adapting themselves to the spirit of the age ; new establish- ments are rising ...
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Page 110 - After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
Page 27 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 144 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 88 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
Page 209 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Page 222 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Page 204 - Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards...
Page 222 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Page 184 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 208 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of...