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Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors. - [Authorship] Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. - [Goodness] Whatever the skill of any country be in sciences, it is from excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity. - [Literature] Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid. - [Spring] Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them. - [Anticipation] While fashion's brightest arts decoy, the heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. - [Fashion] While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. - [Benevolence] Winter, lingering, chills the lap of May. - [Spring] Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. - [Wit] You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. - [Preaching] Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. - A Great Man [Admiration] A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day. - Description of an Author's Bedchamber, in "Citizen of the World", Letter 30, "The Author's Club" [Apparel] That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower. - Double Transformation (l. 75) [Disease] And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep? - Edwin and Angelina, or The Hermit (st. 19) [Friendship] The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. - Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaise [Admiration] Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- From those who spoke her praise. - Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize [Praise] A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. - Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog [Philanthropy] And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, And curs of low degree. - Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog [Dogs] The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. - Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog [Poison] Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. - Epilogue to The Sisters (l. 25) [Hypocrisy] I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. - Essays (24 (1765 ed.)), appeared in the "British Magazine", June, 1760 [France] Measures, not men, have always been my mark. - Good-Natured Man (act II) [Politics] Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. - Haunch of Venison [Luxury] Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. - Hermit (st. 6) [Pity] At this every lady drew up her mouth as if going to pronounce the letter P. - Letter to Robt. Bryanton [Words] Displaying page 7 of 13 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13
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