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Ah! I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. - [Fame] Borne on the swift, tho' silent wings of time, Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime. - [Age] Common sense is nature's gift, but reason is an art. - [Common Sense] Contentment opes the source of every joy. - [Contentment] Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven To censure fate, and pious hope forego. - [Despair] From labor health, from health contentment springs. - [Health] In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty. - [Experience] Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. - [Music] Perish the lore that deadens young desire! - [Desire] The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. - [Education] The love of God ought continually to predominate in the mind, and give to every act of duty grace and animation. - [God] There is not a book on earth so favorable to all the kind and to all the sublime affections, or so unfriendly to hatred and persecution, to tyranny, injustice, and every sort of malevolence, as the Gospel. - [Bible] They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or eye of modesty any of the indecencies, are pests of society. - [Authorship] To think everything disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper. - [Controversy] True dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has raised above the things below; Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd Shrinks not, though fortune aims her deadliest blow. - [Dignity] Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. - Ministrel (bk. I) [Clouds] And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below, Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear! - Minstrel (bk. I, st. 29) [Prayer] At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove. - The Hermit [Evening : Nature] 'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. - The Hermit [Science] He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. - The Hermit (l. 8) [Feeling] On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. - The Hermit (st. 6, last lines) [Immortality] Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime. - The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 25) [Age] Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn. - The Minstrel (bk. I) [Fate] Zealous, not modest. - The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 11) [Zeal] Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. - The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 11) [Character] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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