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That he will attempt to make proselytes I admit , even to a system so fatherless , so forlorn , and so gloomy ; and he will attempt it , on the same principle which causes little children to cry at night for a bedfellow , he is afraid ...
That he will attempt to make proselytes I admit , even to a system so fatherless , so forlorn , and so gloomy ; and he will attempt it , on the same principle which causes little children to cry at night for a bedfellow , he is afraid ...
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With such minds to resolve and to act is instantaneous ; they seem to precede the march of time ; to foresee events , in the chrysalis of their causes ; and to seize that moment for execution , which others waste in deliberation .
With such minds to resolve and to act is instantaneous ; they seem to precede the march of time ; to foresee events , in the chrysalis of their causes ; and to seize that moment for execution , which others waste in deliberation .
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He in- vaded France with sixty men , and for a time succeeded ; but this desperate measure would not have been necessary , if the same promptitude of action which caused this latter attempt to succeed , had not most miserably failed on ...
He in- vaded France with sixty men , and for a time succeeded ; but this desperate measure would not have been necessary , if the same promptitude of action which caused this latter attempt to succeed , had not most miserably failed on ...
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... and splendid , only because they reflect the rays of royal munificence , may be compared to those fogs , which the sun raises up from a swamp , merely to obscure the beams , which were the cause of their elevation . LXVI .
... and splendid , only because they reflect the rays of royal munificence , may be compared to those fogs , which the sun raises up from a swamp , merely to obscure the beams , which were the cause of their elevation . LXVI .
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From its very inaction , idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil ; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever . The Turks have a proverb , which says , that The devil tempts all other men , but that idle men tempt ...
From its very inaction , idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil ; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever . The Turks have a proverb , which says , that The devil tempts all other men , but that idle men tempt ...
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| Title | Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think |
| Author | Charles Caleb Colton |
| Publisher | Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837 |
| Length | 485 pages |
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