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A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth. - [Wit] A fool may now and then be right by chance. - [Fools] A fool must now and then be right by chance. - [Folly : Proverbs] A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. - [Fools] A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. - [Lawyers] A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - [Ease] A snug and friendly game at cards. - [Cards] Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. - [Absence] Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. - [Wisdom] Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. - [Adore] Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such. - [Forgiveness] All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. - [Affectation] All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine. - [Truth] Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is rude and surly? No-- A moral, sensible, and well-bred man, Will not affront me, and no other can. - [Affront] And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies. - [Bible] Behold the picture! Is it like? Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And then skip down again. Pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. - [Clergymen] Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. - [Painting] Books are not seldom talismans and spells. - [Books] Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn. - [Churches] But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. - [Poverty] But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek. - [Liberty] But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! - [God] "Can this be true"? an arch observer cries,-- "Yes," rather moved, "I saw it with these eyes." "Sir! I believe it on that ground alone; I could not had I seen it with my own." - [Truth] Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day. - [Evening] Doing nothing with a deal of skill. - [Idleness] Displaying page 1 of 14 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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