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Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. - [Honesty] So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel: Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell, Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell! - Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan [Worship] The maid who modesty conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals: Gives but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was. - Spider and the Bee (fable X) [Beauty] Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours? - The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat (fable 9, l. 5) [Jealousy] Oh, this pernicious vice of gaming! - The Gamester (act I, sc. 1) [Gambling] I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me--Gamester. - The Gamester (act II, sc. 1) [Gambling] I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. - The Gamester (act II, sc. 2) [Wealth] 'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. - The Gamester (act III, sc. 4) [Youth] Ay, rail at gaming--'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city--you'll find a congregation in every tavern. - The Gamester (act IV, sc. 1) [Gambling] Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. - The Happy Marriage [Time] But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. - The Spider and the Bee--Fable X (l. 29) [Shoemaking]
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