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Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. - Light Shining Out of Darkness [Providence] What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine? - Love Abused [Wives] But strive still to be a man before your mother. - Motto of No. III--Connoisseur [Man] Some people are more nice than wise. - Mutual Forbearance [Wisdom] Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. - Needless Alarm (l. 132) [Day : Proverbs] A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. - Olney Hymns (no. 30) [Scripture] The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. - On Friendship (169) [Friends : Proverbs] There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. - On Observing Some Names of Little Note [Preaching] Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more. - On the Loss of the Royal George [Bravery] Where tempests never beat nor billows roar. - On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture [Heaven] Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. - Pairing Time Anticipated (Moral) [Matrimony] But they whom truth and wisdom lead Can gather honey from a weed. - Pine-Apple and Bee (l. 35) [Wisdom] Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. - Poem on Truth (l. 1) [Error] He cannot drink five bottles, bilk the score, Then kill a constable, and drink five more; But he can draw a pattern, make a tart, And has ladies' etiquette by heart. - Progress of Error (l. 191) [Character] Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. - Progress of Error (l. 267) [Pleasure] How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. - Progress of Error (l. 410) [Education : Proverbs] How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. - Progress of Error (l. 452) [Journalism] No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd. - Progress of Error (l. 470) [Enthusiasm] Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. - Progress of Error (l. 557) [Temperance] An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. - Retirement [Idleness] Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. - Retirement (l. 493) [Prison] Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate. - Retirement (l. 559) [Debt] A business with an income at its heels. - Retirement (l. 614) [Business] Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. - Retirement (l. 623) [Mind : Rest] . . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark. - Retirement (l. 691) [Linguists] Displaying page 8 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14
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