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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. - [Ambition] And doubt, a greater mischief than despair. - [Despair] Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd With those that are not, never change thy mind. - [Justice] From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece, wrapped in the fable of the golden fleece. - [Art] In age to wish for youth is full as vain As far a youth to turn a child again. - [Age] Not from gray hairs authority doth flow, Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; But our past life, when virtuously spent, Must to our age those happy fruits present. - [Authority] O happiness of blindness! now no beauty Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy, Or misery my pity; no man's wealth Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn, Yet still I see enough! man to himself Is a large prospect, raised above the level Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have A world within myself, that world shall be My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely, And willingly obey'd, secure from fear Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. - [Blindness] Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. - [Poetry] Such was the force of his eloquence, to make the hearers more concerned than h he that spake. - [Eloquence] 'T is in worldly accidents, As in the world itself, where things most distant Meet one another: Thus the east and west, Upon the globe a mathematical point Only divides: Thus happiness and misery, And all extremes, are still contiguous. - [Extremes] The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. - in Todd's "Johnson" [Sight] The harmony of things, as well as that of sound, from discord springs. - [Music] Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger. - [Anger] When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. - [Design] The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce, But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: So Age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat. - Cato Major (pt. IV, l. 47) [Age] Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. - Cooper's Hill [Poets] Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. - Cooper's Hill (l. 129) [Fame] O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. - Cooper's Hill (l. 189) [Thames River] Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. - Cooper's Hill (l. 399) [Doubt] Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. - Essay on Vergil's Aeneid [Despair] Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. - Of Prudence [Books] Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. - Of Prudence (l. 225) [Youth] Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do. - Of Prudence (l. 93) [Life] 'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave. - Progress of Learning [Corruption] I can no more believe old Homer blind, Than those who say the sun hath never shined; The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. - Progress of Learning (l. 61) [Poets] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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