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'T is expectation makes a blessing dear. - [Expectation] Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. - [Taste] Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes. - [Taste] Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. - [Mercy] That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. - [Character] That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. - [Variety] The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship. - [Biography] The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. - [Avarice] The devil was piqued such saintship to behold, and longed to tempt him. - [Temptation] The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. - [Falsehood] The feast of reason and the flow of soul. - [Feasting] The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen. - [Flowers] The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule, That ev'ry man in want is knave or fool. "God cannot love (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) The wretch he starves"--and piously denies; But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits and leaves them Providence's care. - [Want] The grave where even the great find rest. - [Graves] The greatest can but blaze and pass away. - [Fame] The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. - [Death] The laughers are a majority. - [Laughter] The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth. - [Wit] The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. - [Variety] The lot of man, to suffer and to die. - [Man] The many-headed monster of the pit. - [Politics] The modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smiled at what they blushed before. - [Blushes] The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love. - [Positiveness] The nations bleed where'er her steps she turns; the groan still deepens, and the combat burns. - [War] The never-failing vice of fools. - [Pride] Displaying page 9 of 34 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
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