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A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. - [Danger] Facts are stubborn things. - [Evidence] False as the fowler's artful snare. - [Falsehood] Glory is the fair child of peril. - [Glory] Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions. - [Nature] Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. - [Country] Not to the ensanguin'd field of death alone Is valor limited: she sits serene In the deliberate council, sagely scans The source of action: weighs, prevents, provides, And scorns to count her glories, from the feats Of brutal force alone. - [Courage] Opposition is the very spur of love. - [Opposition] Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly. - [Dress] To the valiant actions speak alone. - [Action] True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. - [Blustering] Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. - [Proverbs] One wit, like a knuckle ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. - Humphrey Clinker [Wit] And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard. - Humphry Clinker--Ode to Leven Water [Resolution] The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson) - Letter to Wilkes [Literature] Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. - Ode to Independence (l. 1) [Independence] Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty! - Ode to Independence (l. 5) [Liberty] On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread. - Ode to Leven Water [Leven River] In a certain county of England, bounded on one side by the sea, and at the distance of one hundred miles from the metropolis, lived Gamaliel Pickle Esq; the father of that hero whose adventures we propose to record. - Peregrine Pickle [Books (First Lines)] Number three is always fortunate. - Peregrine Pickle, quoted as a well-known proverb [Superstition] A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. - Peregrine Pickle (ch. XLIII) [Science] He will be weighed again At the Great Day, His rigging refitted, And his timbers repaired, And with one broadside Make his adversary Strike in his turn. - Peregrine Pickle (vol. III, ch. VII), Epitaph on Commodore Trunnion [Epitaphs] Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before this altar, Love! - Roderick Random (ch. XL, st. 1) [Love] I was born in the northern part of this united kingdom, in the house of my grandfather; a gentleman of considerable fortune and influence, who had, on many occasions, signalised himself in behalf of his country; and was remarkable for his abilities in the law, which he exercised with great success, in the station of a judge, particularly against beggars, for whom he had a singular aversion. - The Adventures of Roderick Random [Books (First Lines)] Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is. - The Reprisal (act III, 8) [War]
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