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Here he manifestly mistakes. For I spoke not of the Placing, but the Choice of words: for which I quoted that aphorism of JULIUS CAESAR, Delectus verborum est origo eloquentiae. But delectus verborum is no more Latin for the "Placing of words;" than Reserate is Latin for "Shut the door!" as he interprets it; which I, ignorantly, construed "Unlock or open it!"
In general English writers have apparently misconceived, in very curious fashion, Buffon's other remark, "le style c'est l'homme;" by which aphorism Buffon merely meant that a man's individual manner depends on his temperament, his character, and which he, of course, was very far from suspecting would ever be taken for a definition.
"The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action. Is it not so?" "Where learned you that aphorism, out of place on such rosy lips?" "I learned it in studying you," murmured Lilian, tenderly. Here Mrs. Ashleigh joined us. For the first time I slept under the same roof as Lilian. And I forgot that the universe contained an enigma to solve or an enemy to fear.
We do not withdraw from experience but we draw from Experience the lesson the hidden wisdom of the initiate. Meditate upon these sutras. "He who, after he has attained, is wholly free from self, is set in a cloud of holiness which is called Illumination. This is the true spiritual consciousness." This aphorism is self-explanatory.
Of this quality a general notion may be conveyed by the following aphorism: Whenever the nature of the subject permits our reasoning processes to be, without danger, carried on mechanically, the language should be constructed on as mechanical principles as possible; while, in the contrary case, it should be so constructed that there shall be the greatest possible obstacles to a merely mechanical use of it.
I followed, hoping to trace them to their home, but they soon out-distanced me, and that night I composed the following aphorism: It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to be done with her. First, however, to find out their abode, which was probably within easy distance of the shop.
Rebecca was therefore compelled to leave the Laird to proceed at his own snail's pace, convinced, by experience, of the grave-digger's aphorism, that your dull ass will not mend his pace for beating.
But, granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that "the people always conquer," it is to be noted, that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land, and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic, but an aristocratic complexion; and those States have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper, until the instinct of self-preservation forced us into the war.
He belonged to that natural, humorous school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by one of their number in 1653, "To despise flowers is to offend God." From that premise the school of tulip-fanciers, the most exclusive of all schools, worked out the following syllogism in the same year: "To despise flowers is to offend God.
Henri de Loubersac understood: he grew pale: his lips were pressed tightly together: he clenched his fists. Satisfied with this result, Juve repeated to himself this celebrated aphorism of the Bastille: "Slander! Slander! Some of it always sticks!" It was dark. In a little restaurant near by, the two men dined frugally: it was a mediocre repast, not too well cooked.
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