"Dear-bought" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reason to form a different opinion from that which is recorded, and upon many others I have since laughed heartily at my folly and simplicity; but still, I have thought it advisable to let the ideas of the period remain, rather than correct them by those of dear-bought experience. A boy of fifteen, brought up in a secluded country town, cannot be expected to reason and judge as a young man who has seen much of life, and passed through a variety of adventures. The reader must therefore remember, that I have referred to my journal for the opinions and feelings ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... to defend The dear-bought, rich inheritance; And spite of each invading hand, We'll fight, bleed, die, in its defence! Pursue our fathers' paths of fame, And ...
— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson
... Britain, another to France, and a third to Spain, and perhaps played off against each other by the three, what a poor, pitiful figure will America make in their eyes! How liable would she become not only to their contempt but to their outrage, and how soon would dear-bought experience proclaim that when a people or family so divide, it never ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
... look back, unless it be to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience." ...
— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer
... of the most valiant officers and soldiers of the Araucanians being slain, they retired in good order, leaving the field of battle to the Spaniards, who felt no inclination to pursue them after a so dear-bought victory. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr
... clearly see that of mankind Long time I was the tale: whence bitter thought And self-reproach with frequent blushes teem; While of my frenzy, shame the fruit I find, And sad repentance, and the proof, dear-bought, That the world's joy is but a ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
... coup de grace to Jennings, who looked scared and terrified:—what! all gone—all, his own beloved hoard, and that dear-bought crock of gold? Then Sir John added, after one minute of ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... fair, Dear-bought sense, experience rare, Learning ripe, companions fond Yield, lest their bond ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves
... quickened by its examples, instructed by its experiences, warned by its voices, assisted by its accumulated instrumentality, shall reproduce it in the life of to-day. Its once busy existence, various sensations, fiery trials, dear-bought triumphs; its dynasty of heroes, all its pulses of joy and anguish, and hope and fear, and love and praise, are with the years beyond the flood. "The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures." Yet, gazing on these, long ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin
... exclamations and dry remarks. Jemima indeed displayed a strange mixture of interest and suspicion; for she would listen to her with earnestness, and then suddenly interrupt the conversation, as if afraid of resigning, by giving way to her sympathy, her dear-bought knowledge of the world. ...
— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft
... inclinations, but contributed to the amusement and instruction of a numerous class of his fellow creatures. The present volume consists of no dry didactic dissertations on an art unteachable by written rules, and in which, without long and often dear-bought experience, neither precept nor example will avail; but it contains a sufficiency of sagacious practical advice, and is enlivened by the narration of numerous angling adventures, which bring out, with force and spirit, the essential character ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various |
