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" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. "
The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ... - Page 46
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680
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The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers

Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...Parts and Signs of Goodness are many. If •*• a Man be Gracious and Curteous to Strangers, it shews he is a Citizen of the World ; and that his Heart is no Island, cut off from other Lands, but a Continent that joyns to them. If he be Compassionate towards...
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The Temple of Virtue

Paul Revere Frothingham - Character - 1907 - 204 pages
...account than helpfulness and eager service." For " if a man be gracious and courteous . . . it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them; if he be compassionate toward...
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School Work, Volume 3

Education - 1904 - 484 pages
...parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards...
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The Education of Catholic Girls

Janet Erskine Stuart - Women - 1911 - 268 pages
...Parts and Signes of Goodnesse are many. If a Man be Gracious and Curfceous to Strangers, it shewes he is a Citizen of the World, And that his Heart is no Island cut off from other Lands, but a Continent that joynes to them. If he be Compassionate towards...
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Representative passages from English literature, chosen and arranged by W.H ...

William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them: if he be compassionate towards...
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The Theosophical Quarterly, Volume 16

Theosophy - 1918 - 490 pages
..."The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins a them. If he be compassionate towards...
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The Theosophical Quarterly, Volume 16

Theosophy - 1918 - 428 pages
..."The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins a them. If he be compassionate towards...
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What Billingsgate Thought: A Country Gentleman's Views on Snobbery

William Alexander Newman Dorland - Snobs and snobbishness - 1919 - 202 pages
...the brotherhood of man. It was a great soul who eaid, "If a man be gracious to a stranger it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands." And John, courtesy may [92] be cultivated just like any other virtue...
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World: A Study

Hamilton Jewett Smith - 1926 - 298 pages
...Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature: 'If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.' 1647. John Cleveland, Satire...
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Yale Studies in English, Volume 71

Hamilton Jewett Smith - English language - 1926 - 204 pages
...Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature: 'If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.' 1647. John Cleveland, Satire...
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