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Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. - Cooper's Hill (l. 129) [Fame] O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. - Cooper's Hill (l. 189) [Thames River] Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. - Cooper's Hill (l. 399) [Doubt] Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. - Essay on Vergil's Aeneid [Despair] Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. - Of Prudence [Books] Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. - Of Prudence (l. 225) [Youth] Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do. - Of Prudence (l. 93) [Life] 'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave. - Progress of Learning [Corruption] I can no more believe old Homer blind, Than those who say the sun hath never shined; The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. - Progress of Learning (l. 61) [Poets] Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. - The Sophy--A Tragedy [Action] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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