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The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. - Preface to Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare] And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. - Prologue on Opening the Drury Lane Theatre (l. 6) [Time] Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. - Prologue on the Opening of the Drury Lane Theatre [Authorship] As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. - Rambler (#173) [Fanaticism] I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. - Rasselas (ch. III) [Pleasure] A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. - Rasselas (ch. XII) [Habit] Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Rasselas (ch. XII) [Impossibility] Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. - Rasselas (ch. XIII) [Knowledge] Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. - Rasselas (ch. XIII) [Difficulties] The endearing elegance of female friendship. - Rasselas (ch. XLVI) [Friendship] I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. - Rasselas (ch. XVI) [Society] The first years of man must make provision for the last. - Rasselas (ch. XVII) [Prudence] Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. - Recollections of Johnson, From Miss Reynolds [Fear] Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about. - Remark as Recorded by Mrs. Piozzi [Wives] Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Remark to Wilkes [Quotations] Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them. - The Adventurer (no. 137) [Reading] He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. - The Idler (no. 57) [Change] What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. - The Idler (no. 74) [Reading] The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. - The Lives of the English Poets--Life of Waller [Poetry] When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. - The Rambler (no. 110) [Hope] Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain: "Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till naught remain." - The Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 201) [Success] For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. - The Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 352) [Patience] Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five. - To Mrs. Thrale, when Thirty-five (l. 11) [Age : Women] Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail; Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. - Tragedy of Irene (prologue) [Criticism] Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. - Vanity of Human Wishes [Folly] Displaying page 36 of 37 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 [36] 37
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