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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Act v. Sc. 1. . How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. AS YOU LIKE IT. •Act i. Sc. 2. Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. Act...
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The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories

Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1991 - 552 pages
...taste, or polite behavior'. Shakespeare, in his Merchant of Venice (ca. 1596), illustrates this use: "How far that little candle throws his beams!/ So shines a good deed in a naughty world." While nowadays naughty is most often applied to children, a person who commits...
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Bad Medicine: The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World

Milton Silverman, Mia Lydecker, Philip Lee - 1992 - 380 pages
...Shakespeare touched on this matter. In the final scene of his Merchant of Venice, Portia declares: "How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world." AMMUNITION FOR THE CONSUMERS In the past, especially in industrialized societies,...
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Light: The Shape of Space: Designing with Space and Light

Lou Michel - 1995 - 328 pages
...Bibliography 258 Name Index 267 Subject Index 271 Portia: That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Nerissa: When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. Portia: So doth the greater...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...trusted. — Mark the music. Enter PORTIA and NERISSA. PORTIA. That light we see is burning in my hall. h, sir; by my troth, he is, as ever broke bread: but God is to be in a naughty world. NERISSA. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. PORTIA. So doth the greater...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...concord of sweet sounds. Is lit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. 10407 The Merchant of Venice arlit or a moonlit dome distains in a naughty world. 10408 The Merchant of Venice This night methinks is but the daylight sick. 10409...
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Words to the Wise: Collected Essays

Kathryn Ann Lindskoog - 2000 - 156 pages
...women to relate better to God and their families. That is, in fact, a good deed. Shakespeare wrote, "How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a naughty world." And as Ms. Morgan would add brightly, "He was so right, even 400 years ago!" Making...
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The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations

Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb True Christianity is love in action. David O. McKay How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. William Shakespeare Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...worlds," ending with the wise thought: "Let us cultivate our own garden." There we may bring blossom. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. —Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, v, l kann: reed, hemp. Skr sunah; sunn: East...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...trusted. — Mark the music. Enter PORTIA and NERISSA. PORTIA. That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. NERISSA. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. PORTIA. So doth the greater...
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