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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. - [Art] Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. - [Birth] Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. - [Courage] Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth. - [Birthplace : Custom] Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. - [Deceit] Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by. - [Tears] Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer. - [Law] Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. - [Charity] Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. - [Dependence] Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil. - [Mischief] O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. - [Matrimony] Order, thou eye of action. - [Order] Reason gains all men by compelling none. - [Reason] Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. - [Doubt] Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. - [Tears] She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. - [Eyes] She most attracts who longest can refuse. - [Courtship] She who means no mischief does it all. - [Mischief] Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory. - [Fear] The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium. - [Monomania] There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. - [Difficulties] 'Tis the same, with common natures, Use 'em kindly, they rebel, But, be rough as nutmeg graters, And the rogues obey you well. - [Obedience] Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds. - [Courtship] With women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds. - [Courtship] Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before. - Athelwold (act V, sc. The Garden) [Love] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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