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A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a whole sentence by a single exprossion. - [Dress] A moment of time may make us unhappy forever. - [Unhappiness] All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear. - [Proverbs] Because its blessings are abused, must gold be censured, cursed, accused? - [Gold] Because my blessings are abus'd, Must I be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd? Even virtue's self by knaves is made A cloak to carry on the trade. - [Gold] By her we first were taught the wheedling art. - [Coquette] Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. - [Equality] Could fools to keep their own contrive, On what, on whom could gamesters thrive? - [Gambling] Cynthia, fair regent of the night, oh, may thy silver lamp from heaven's high bower direct my footsteps in the midnight hour. - [Moon] Envy is a kind of praise. - [Envy] Fools, to talking ever prose Are sure to make their follies known. - [Fools] He, who would free from malice pass his days, Must live obscure, and never merit praise. - [Hate] I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please. - [Lawyers] In love we are all fools alike. - [Love] Just education forms the man. - [Education] Lashed into Latin by the tingling rod. - [Linguists] Merit was ever modest known. - [Merit] My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear. - attributed to, as it appeared in William Davenant's "Rivals", an alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen", attribution to Gay by Boosey, the publishers [Unkindness] Oh, bane of man! seducing cheat! Can man, weak man, thy power defeat? Gold banish'd honor from the mind, And only left the name behind; Gold sow'd the world with ev'ry ill, Gold taught the murderer's sword to kill; 'Twas gold instructed coward hearts In treachery's more pernicious arts. - [Gold] Out of mind, when out of view. - [Proverbs] Praising all alike, is praising none. - [Praise] Shadow owes its birth to light. - [Contrast] She lik'd his soothing lutes, his presents more, And granted kisses, but would grant no more. - [Coquette] Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them. - [Lying] Sweet as refreshing dews or summer showers, To the long parching thirst of drooping flowers; Grateful as fanning gales to fainting swains And soft as trickling balm to bleeding pains Such are thy words. - [Comfort] Displaying page 1 of 6 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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