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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain. - translation of "Anacreontic Odes", VII, Gold [Love] As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor. - [Notoriety] Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on. - [Books] Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. - [Curiosity] Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize! - in commendation of the time we live under, the reign of Charles II [Blacksmithing] Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? - [Bible] God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. - [Gardens : Proverbs] Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! - [Hope] It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him. - [Egotism] Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture. - [Man] Much will always wanting be To him who much desires. - [Proverbs] Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. - [Appreciation] Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more. - [Proverbs] Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. - [Avarice] Sire of repentance, child of fond desire! - [Hope] Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barbarous skill; 'Tis like the poisoning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. - [Adorn] The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder. - [Agriculture] The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey. - [Proverbs] The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. - [Liberty] The slippery tops of human state, the gilded pinnacles of fate. - [Fate] The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy. - [Change] There have been fewer friends on earth than kings. - [Friends] There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter. - [Contentment] Thou sick man's health! - [Hope] We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms. - [Heraldry] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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