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Her tears, like drops of molten lead, With torment burn the passage to my heart. - [Tears] High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more, Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. - [Riches] Hold their farthing candle to the sun. - [Critics] Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to proceed from judgment, not from passion. - [Censure] How blessings brighten as they take their flight. - [Proverbs] How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. - [Proverbs] How many sleep who keep the world awake! - [Sleep] How must a spirit, late escaped from earth, the truth of things new blazing in its eyes, look back astonished on the ways of men, whose lives' whole drift is to forget their graves! - [Spirits] How populous, how vital is the grave! - [Graves] How science dwindles, and how volumes swell! - [Books] How the tall temples, as to meet their gods, Ascend the skies! - [Spires] How wretched is the man who never mourned? - [Mourners] Humble love, and not proud science, keens the door of heaven. - [Love] I envy none the gilding of their woe. - [Wealth] If not to some peculiar end assign'd, Study's the specious trifling of the mind; Or is at best a secondary aim, A chase for sport alone and not for game. - [Study] If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. - [Wit] If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. - [Envy] If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain. - [Heart] If you resent, and wish a woman ill, But turn her o'er one moment to her will. - [Women] In our world, death deputes intemperance to do the work of age. - [Intemperance] Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven! By tyrant life dethroned, imprison'd, pain'd? By death enlarg'd, ennobled, deify'd? Death but entombs the body; life the soul. - [Soul] It is falling in love with our own mistaken ideas that makes fools and beggars of half mankind. - [Self-love] It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. - [Self-examination] It's not enough plagues, wars, and famine rise to lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise? - [Wisdom] Jealousy, thou grand counterpoise for all the transports beauty can inspire! - [Jealousy] Displaying page 3 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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