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A woman's noblest station is retreat. - [Women] Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light. - [Retirement] Ev'n in the happiest choice, where fav'ring heaven Has equal love and easy fortune giv'n,-- Think not, the husband gain'd, that all is done; The prize of happiness must still be won: And, oft, the careless find it to their cost; The lover in the husband may be lost; The graces might alone his heart allure; They and the virtues, meeting, must secure. - [Matrimony] Hence, wretched nation! all thy woes arise, Avow'd corruption, licens'd perjuries, Eternal taxes, treaties for a day, Servants that rule, and senates that obey. - [Corruption] Love can hope, where reason would despair. - [Love] Me other cares in other climes engage, Cares that become my birth, and suit my age: In various knowledge to instruct my youth, And conquer prejudice, worst foe to truth, By foreign arts, domestic faults to mend, Enlarge my notions, and my views extend; The useful science of the world to know, Which books can never teach, nor pedants show. - [Travel] Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight; Domestic worth,--that shuns too strong a light. - [Women] The useful science of the world to know, which books can never teach, nor pedants show. - [Travel] Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek. - [Wit] A cunning woman is a knavish fool. - Advice to a Lady [Women] The lower in the husband may be lost. - Advice to a Lady (l. 112) [Husbands] What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair. - Advice to a Lady (l. 17) [Vanity] None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair: But Love can hope where Reason would despair. - Advice to a Lady (st. 13) [Love] Women, like princes, find few real friends. - Advice to a Lady (st. 2) [Friends] How much the wife is dearer than the bride. - An Irregular Ode [Wives] The lover in the husband may be lost. - Epigram [Love] Ah, no! the conquest was obtained with ease; He pleased you not by studying to please. - Progress of Love (3) [Pleasure] For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. - Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus [Poets] Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. - Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country (l. 11) [Beauty : Proverbs] Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known. - Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country (l. 13) [Beauty] Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; That heart can ne'er a transport know, That never feels a pain. - Song [Bliss] Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd. - The Progress of Love--Hope (eclogue II, l. 41) [Hope]
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