330 ordspråk av George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer
O nights and feasts of the gods!
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O spring of Bandusia, brighter than glass.
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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
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Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Once begun: a task is easy: half the work is done
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
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Painters and poets, you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
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Plunge it in the depths; it comes up fairer.
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