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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. - Davideis (bk. III, l. 205) [Extremes] Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. - Davideis (bk. III, l. 37) [Jewels] Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. - Elegy upon Anacreon (l. 106) [Grapes] This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. - Essays in Prose and Verse--Of Myself, (translation of Horace) [Moderation] His time's forever, everywhere his place. - Friendship in Absence (st. 3) [Time] Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last. - Imitations--Martial (bk. X, ep. XLVII) [Contentment] Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away. - Imitations--Tenth Epistle of Horace (bk. I, l. 75) [Money] Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. - Martial (lib. II, XC) [Life] Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! - Ode on Life and Fame (l. 18) [Eternity] Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. - Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III [Proverbs : Public] Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. - Of Myself [Books] The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head. - Of Plants (bk. IV, Of Flowers, The Poppy, l. 102) [Sunflowers] His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. - On the Death of Crashaw (l. 55) [Faith : Life] Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. - On the Praise of Poetry (ode I, l. 13) [Poets] Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. - Pyramus and Thisbe (XV) [Opportunity] Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. - The Danger of Procrastination [Time] Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. - The Mistress--For Hope [Hope] What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? - The Motto (l. 1) [Fame] Words that weep, and tears that speak. - The Prophet (st. 2, l. 8) [Tears : Words] Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me. - The Wish (st. 2) [Possession] Life is an incurable disease. - To Dr. Scarborough [Life] For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. - To the Bishop of Lincoln (l. 27) [Home] We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before. - Works (p. 60), (1693 ed.), a discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell [Blushes] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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