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An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild. - [Infatuation] Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. - [Will] Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more. - [Circles] Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances. - [Dreams] Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please. - [Ease] Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs. - [Anticipation] Feed the musician, and he's out of tune. - [Musicians] Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name. - [Fortune] Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force, Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course; And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain; Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come, And breathe around her melancholy gloom: To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine, And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. - [Genius] Genius, thou gift of Heaven! thou light divine! - [Genius] He, fairly looking into life's account, Saw frowns and favours were of like amount; And viewing all--his perils, prospects, purse, He said, content;--'t is well it no worse. - [Contentment] Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence. - [Impertinence] In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way. - [Proverbs] In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. - [Adversity] Learning is better worth than house or land. - [Learning] Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth. - [Controversy] Monuments themselves memorials need. - [Monuments] O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright, That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd, That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd; And then the hopes that came and then were gone, Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on. - [Courtship] Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey! - [Passion] Such harmony in motion, speech and air, That without fairness, she was more than fair. - [Beauty] There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. - [Inclination] Thy face the index of a feeling mind. - [Face] 'Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind. - [Fortitude] Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects. - [Amusements] Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin; We cannot heal the throbbing heart Will we discern the wounds within. - Hell of Justice (pt. II) [Sin] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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