Aphorisms, Maxims, &C., For Learners (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Potts, Robert

9781330718483: Aphorisms, Maxims, &C., For Learners (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330718488 ISBN 13: 9781330718483

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Aphorisms, Maxims, &C., For Learners

Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, treasure, rest, and food, And kindle in thy breast a ﬂame refined; Pray heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose, to begin, pursue, \vith thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind, Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all the praise is due.

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Excerpt from Aphorisms, Maxims, &C., For Learners

Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, treasure, rest, and food, And kindle in thy breast a flame refined; Pray heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose, to begin, pursue, \vith thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind, Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all the praise is due.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Aphorisms, Maxims, &C., For Learners

Aphorisms representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to enquire farther; whereas methods carrying the show of a total, do secure men as if they were at farthest. - Bacon.

Exclusively of the Abstract Sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of Aphorisms; and the greatest and best of men is but an Aphorism.

Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

There is one way of giving freshness and importance to the most common-place maxims - that of reflecting on them in direct reference to our own state and conduct, to our own past and future being. - S. T. Coleridge.

Mature and sedate wisdom has been fond of summing up the results of its experience in weighty sentences. Solomon did so: the wise men of India and Greece did so: Bacon did so: Goethe in his old age took delight in doing so... They who cannot weave an uniform web, may at least produce a piece of patchwork, which may be useful, and not without a charm of its own.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.