Thesaurus / apophthegm
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I should prefer to reverse the apophthegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter.
MYSTERIOUS PSYCHIC FORCESCAMILLE FLAMMARIONEmphatic fulfillment does his success afford of the celebrated apophthegm of Mulready, "Know what you have to do, and do it."
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. IX.--FEBRUARY, 1851.--VOL. II.VARIOUSMadame de Staël repeats this apophthegm in her work on Germany.
REJECTED ADDRESSESJAMES SMITHHe delivered this apophthegm with emphasis, and repeated it in another form.
NEW GRUB STREETGEORGE GISSINGFaint heart never won fair lady, he said to himself, in some answering apophthegm.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 84, OCTOBER, 1864VARIOUSThey have been told that the celebrated apophthegm all for each is the solution of the social problem.
HARMONIES OF POLITICAL ECONOMYFRDRIC BASTIATThey both belong to the favourite style of apophthegm, in which every sentence is a point or a witticism.
INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF EUROPE IN THE FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES, VOL. 2HENRY HALLAMNever yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm.
GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL, COMPLETE.FRANCOIS RABELAISThis apophthegm is one of the landmarks of religious history.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANSG. G. FINDLAYHe has inspired me with an apophthegm, however—let us give Bonvoisin his due!
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