Past-timesJ. H. Saumenig, 1909 - 141 sayfa |
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adage appall Baltimore Bells better bird blessed blest bliss cease chance cheer clinging vine COMMENTS Cram-bim-bam-bambulee Crambambulee dear Virginia December 31 devil's workshop e'en e'er evil eyes fact fain farewell fears feel folly fool frae friends genius give up hard glory God's grace hand haply Happy heart heed hope idle Jamestown Exposition Jessamine joyous keep Know thyself lady Lest life's live look Lord lose man's mark Marriage meet Messiah mind moral mystic word Reform Naught ne'er Neath never o'er ofttimes pelf pinion pleasure poor Poppleton's Plat praise pride prove PROVERBS Quill scarce sense sing sinners smile Solon song sorrow soul strife sublime success sure sweet tell thee There's things thought tinkle trite Trolley-la trouble true truth Twas unto virtue Whate'er Who'd wise woman wouldst
Popüler pasajlar
Sayfa 106 - Certainly, madam; to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Sayfa 98 - If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Sayfa 128 - The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Sayfa 140 - ... contracts, to undo one another. It is remarkable, that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver (being both the instruments of blood and slaughter, and the price of it), nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
Sayfa 80 - Early to bed and early to rise, will make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise; and so on, to a great variety.
Sayfa 140 - Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Sayfa 134 - As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Sayfa 68 - May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.
Sayfa 140 - Some men, like pictures, are fitter for a corner than a full light ; and I believe such as have a natural bent to solitude are like waters, which may be forced into fountains, and exalted to a great height, may make a much nobler figure, and a much louder noise, but after all run more smoothly, equally, and plentifully, in their own natural course upon the ground.
Sayfa 130 - There are three things it takes a strong man to hold ; a young warrior, a wild horse, and a handsome squaw.