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A fool may now and then be right by chance. - [Fools] A fool must now and then be right by chance. - [Folly : Proverbs] A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. - [Fools] A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. - [Lawyers] A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - [Ease] A snug and friendly game at cards. - [Cards] Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. - [Absence] Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. - [Adore] Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such. - [Forgiveness] All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. - [Affectation] Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is rude and surly? No-- A moral, sensible, and well-bred man, Will not affront me, and no other can. - [Affront] And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies. - [Bible] Behold the picture! Is it like? Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And then skip down again. Pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. - [Clergymen] Books are not seldom talismans and spells. - [Books] Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn. - [Churches] But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek. - [Liberty] But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! - [God] Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day. - [Evening] Doing nothing with a deal of skill. - [Idleness] Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. - [Events] Examine well his milk-white hand, the palm is hardly clean,--but here and there an ugly smutch appears. Foh! It was a bribe that left it. He has touched corruption. - [Corruption] Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. - [Fancy] Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day. - [Death] Farewell! "But not for ever." - [Farewell] Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but his shape, And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape, The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong, Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue, There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace, Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace, And when accomplish'd in her wayward school, Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool. - [Fashion] Displaying page 1 of 12 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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