| 1831 - 602 pages
...and the estimation they are held in is only discovered when they can no longer give hopes or fears. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom,...but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Sensibility would be a good Porteress, if she had but one hand— but with her right... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...pa-tups there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man " 13. « There is this difference between happiness and wisdom;...that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; bnt he that thinks himielf the wisest, is generally the greatest fool." 14. " If ihe devil ever liuglis,... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1821 - 280 pages
...ardor that gathered force from opposition, constancy from persecution, and victory from death. CCCXXVI. THERE is this difference between happiness and wisdom...but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. CCCXXVII. ARISTOTLE has said that man is by nature, Swor KoiM>KJtoi>, a social animal,... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1824 - 300 pages
...opposition, constancy from persecution, and victory from death. CCCXXVI. There is this difference hetween happiness and wisdom ; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; hut he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. CCCXXVII. Aristotle has said... | |
| 1826 - 398 pages
...asserted. LACONICS. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom...but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Many who find the day too long, think life too short, but short as life is, some... | |
| Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...no inundations I If men kept theirs, we should not see such floods of sin and misery. — Gurnall. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom...but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Afflictions sent by Providence meet the constancy of the noble-minded, but confirm... | |
| 1830 - 614 pages
...and the estimation they are held in is only discovered when they can no longer give hopes or fears. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom,...but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Sensibility would be a good Porteress, if she had but one hand — but with her... | |
| Caleb Charles Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1832 - 516 pages
...constancy from persecution, and victory from death. There is this difference between happiness andwisdom ; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so ; but he that thinks himself the wisest,is generally the greatest fool. Aristotle has said, that man is by nature a social animal, and... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...will most excel in ; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. — Ibid. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom...thinks himself the happiest man really is so ; but lie that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. — Ibid. A GIFTED FAMILY. There... | |
| Watson Adams - Conduct of life - 1834 - 290 pages
...slave ; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. Lacon. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom ; he that thinks himself the happiest man, is really so: but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. When the former... | |
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