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Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'd, As poison heals, in just proportion us'd. - [Avarice] What is every year of a wise man's life but a censure or critic on the past? - [Experience] What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath. - [Fame] What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own. - [Wisdom] What mighty contests rise from trivial things. - [Proverbs] What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. - [Virtue] What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. - [Wives] What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year? And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show! - [Funerals] What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. - [Controversy] When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it. - [Charity] When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. - [Virtue] When rosy morning glimmered o'er the dales. - [Morning] When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. - [Compliments] When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed. - [Old Age] When weary reapers quit the sultry field, and, crown'd with corn, their thanks to Ceres yield. - [Agriculture] Where blended lie the oppressor and the oppressed. - [Graves] Where order in variety we see, and where, though all things differ, all agree. - [Nature] Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. - [Generosity : Gratitude] While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. - [Knavery] Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. - [Ambition] Who says in verse what others say in prose. - [Poets] Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? - [Spires] Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison and to choose their food. - [Instinct] Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. - [Perfection] Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense! - [Solitude] Displaying page 12 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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