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A fool at forty is a fool indeed. - [Fools] A shameless woman is the worst of men. - [Women] A time there is when like a thrice-told tale, long-rifled life of sweets can yield no more. - [Age] All may do what has by man been done. - [Decision] An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. - [Angels] An undevout astronomer is mad. - [Astronomy] And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb: Our birth is nothing but our death begun. - [Life] And in their height of kindness are unkind. - [Unkindness] And made youth younger, taught life to live. - [Youth] And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. - [Ingratitude] Applause which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. - [Vanity] Around the neck what dross are gold and pearl! - [Ornament] Art thou not dearer to my eyes than light? Dost thou not circulate through all my veins? Mingle with life, and form my very soul? - [Love] Authors now find, as once Achilles found, the whole is mortal if a part's unsound. - [Authorship] Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. - [Delay : Proverbs] Beautiful as sweet! and young as beautiful! and soft as young! and gay as soft! and innocent as gay! - [Beauty] Beware what earth calls happiness; beware all joys but joys that never can expire. - [Happiness] Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world. - [Suicide] Can eternity belong to me, poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? - [Eternity] Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine? Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less To make our fortune, than our happiness. - [Gold] Cares are employments; and without employ The soul is on a rack; the rack of rest, To souls most adverse; action all their joy. - [Employment] Courts can give nothing to the wise and good, But scorn of pomp, and love of solitude. - [Court] Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait, Proclaim their glory, and augment the state; Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. - [Critics] Dark lattice! letting in eternal day! - [Graves] Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world, When pleasure treads the paths which reason shuns. - [Pleasure] Displaying page 1 of 18 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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