Vulgar words in Pearls of Thought (Page 1)
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Secker._ With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.--_Madden._ Every braggart shall be found an ass.--_Shakespeare._ Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.--_Charles Buxton._ ~Boldness.~--Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.--_Smollett._ Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more.--_Lemesles._ ~Bondage.~--The iron chain and the silken cord, both equally are bonds.--_Schiller._ ~Books.~--If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!--_Thackeray._ When a new book comes out I read an old one.--_Rogers._ Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.--_Paxton Hood._ Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there.
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He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.--_Colton._ Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles!--_Byron._ Judges and senates have been bought for gold.--_Pope._ Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor, and the blood of the brave.--_Joseph Napoleon._ Gold all is not that doth golden seem.--_Spenser._ There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reach it.--_Rojas._ ~Good.~--When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.--_George Eliot._ How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!--_Carlyle._ Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.--_Milton._ Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
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Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.--_Sir J. Reynolds._ ~Irony.~--Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ ~Irresolution.~--Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness.
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This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true; but unhappily it is laughed at in court.--_Rousseau._ Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.--_Patrick Henry._ A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself; under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honored tomb.--_Alfieri._ One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.--_Thomas Paine._ He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.--_Corneille._ Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession.--_Dryden._ ~Kisses.~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever.
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Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.--_Leigh Hunt._ How inevitably does an immoderate laughter end in a sigh!--_South._ Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face.--_Jeremy Taylor._ Laughter means sympathy.--_Carlyle._ One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.--_De Witt Talmage._ I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.--_Chesterfield._ I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shower at the same time pearls and the soul.--_Victor Hugo._ Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles.--_Dr.
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Petit Senn._ Love is lowliness; on the wedding ring sparkles no jewel.--_Richter._ Love alone is wisdom, love alone is power; and where love seems to fail, it is where self has stepped between and dulled the potency of its rays.--_George MacDonald._ To speak of love is to make love.--_Balzac._ A man may be a miser of his wealth; he may tie up his talent in a napkin; he may hug himself in his reputation; but he is always generous in his love.
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Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.--_Voltaire._ A man of pleasure is a man of pains.--_Young._ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought.
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Honors bestowed on the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; for the living pity the dead; and pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, assimilate not.--_Colton._ Praise is the best diet for us after all.--_Sydney Smith._ Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.--_Washington Allston._ Damn with faint praise.--_Pope._ Counsel is not so sacred a thing as praise, since the former is only useful among men, but the latter is for the most part reserved for the gods.--_Pythagoras._ Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.--_Broadhurst._ One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.