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For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength. - [Anger] 'T is not for mortals, always to be blest. - [Blessedness] Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven. - [Drunkenness] There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 195) [Wealth] This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 453) [World] Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 484) [Age] 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 260) [Blessings] Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 265) [Virtue] Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 284) [Virtue] Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 301) [Consistency : Preaching] Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 310) [Hope] Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 318) [Hope] Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. - Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 512) [Music] How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. - The Art of Preserving Health (bk. III, l. 385) [Sleep]
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