The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... Habits . - The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life ; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth , others must labour on in a maze of error ...
... Habits . - The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life ; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth , others must labour on in a maze of error ...
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... habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages , which , like the hand of a clock , whilst they make hourly approaches to their point , yet proceed so slowly as to escape observa- tion . - Sir Joshua Reynolds ...
... habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages , which , like the hand of a clock , whilst they make hourly approaches to their point , yet proceed so slowly as to escape observa- tion . - Sir Joshua Reynolds ...
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... habit . Three vices incident to ill - educated youth are , falsehood , intrigue , and dishonesty respecting property ... habits . This may account for the risks they run without apprehension , or the celerity with which they recover from ...
... habit . Three vices incident to ill - educated youth are , falsehood , intrigue , and dishonesty respecting property ... habits . This may account for the risks they run without apprehension , or the celerity with which they recover from ...
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... habit of vinous indulgence is not more pernicious , than it is obstinate and pertinacious in its hold , when it has once fastened itself upon the constitution . It is not to be conquered by hálf measures . No compromise with it is ...
... habit of vinous indulgence is not more pernicious , than it is obstinate and pertinacious in its hold , when it has once fastened itself upon the constitution . It is not to be conquered by hálf measures . No compromise with it is ...
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... habit ; and by the ease with which they are done , they save the spectator a world of pity : but for those , like Jacob's , brought upon him by the hands from which he looked for all his comforts ; -the avarice of a parent , the ...
... habit ; and by the ease with which they are done , they save the spectator a world of pity : but for those , like Jacob's , brought upon him by the hands from which he looked for all his comforts ; -the avarice of a parent , the ...
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