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Dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, English and foreign sources; including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, ... on life, literature, speculation, science
Anonymous
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781230150291
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...prayer and labour. M. Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpora sano--We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Juv. Orate pro anima--Pray for the soul of. Orationis summa virtus est perspicuitas--The greatest virtue of speech is perspicuity. Quinct. 10 Orator improbus leg-es subvertit--An evil-disposed orator subverts the laws. Oratory is a warrior's eye flashing from under a philosopher's brow. Hart. Oratory, like a drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must be kept doing. Bulwer Lytton. Order all thy actions, so as readily and meekly to comply with the commands of thy superiors, the desires of thy equals, the requests of thy inferiors; so to do for all what thou lawfully mayest. Thomas a Kctnpis. Order and quiet are good things when they can be had without the sacrifice of things that are better. Ward Beeckcr. 15 Order is a great man's need, and his true wellbeing. Amiel. Order is heaven's first law. Pope. Order is power. Amiel. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. Soutkey. Order is truth, each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it. Carlyle. 20 Order, thou eye of action. Aaron HilL Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it Schopenhauer. Ore e sempre--Now and always. It. Ore tenus--Merely from the mouth; oral. Organic laws can only be serviceable to, and, in general, will only be written by, a public of Honourable citizens, loyal to their state and faithful to each other. Ruskin. 25dpyi piouTiov 6lyov Urxfat xptvov--The anger of lovers does not last long. Menander. Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for and
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