330 ordspråk av George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer
Sweet and glorious it is to die for one's country.
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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
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Tear thyself from delay.
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Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
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The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious than ourselves
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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
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The brothers who strove to pile Pelion on shady Olympus.
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The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself
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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
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The covetous man is ever in want.
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The crowd of changeable citizens
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The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
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