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All human wisdom, to divine, is folly. - [Wisdom] Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. - [Ambition] And doubt, a greater mischief than despair. - [Despair] Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd With those that are not, never change thy mind. - [Justice] Clear-sighted reason, wisdom's judgment leads; and sense, her vassal, in her footsteps treads. - [Reason] Expect not more from servants than is just; Reward them well, if they observe their trust, Nor with them cruelty or pride invade; Since God and nature them our brothers made. - [Servants] From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece, wrapped in the fable of the golden fleece. - [Art] In age to wish for youth is full as vain As far a youth to turn a child again. - [Age] Man's that savage beast whose mind, from reason to self-love declined, delights to prey upon his kind. - [Self-love] More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost. - [Prosperity] Not from gray hairs authority doth flow, Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; But our past life, when virtuously spent, Must to our age those happy fruits present. - [Authority] O happiness of blindness! now no beauty Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy, Or misery my pity; no man's wealth Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn, Yet still I see enough! man to himself Is a large prospect, raised above the level Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have A world within myself, that world shall be My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely, And willingly obey'd, secure from fear Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. - [Blindness] O happiness of sweet retir'd content! To be at once secure and innocent. - [Retirement] Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. - [Poetry] Rashness and haste make all things insecure. - [Rashness] Such was the force of his eloquence, to make the hearers more concerned than h he that spake. - [Eloquence] 'T is in worldly accidents, As in the world itself, where things most distant Meet one another: Thus the east and west, Upon the globe a mathematical point Only divides: Thus happiness and misery, And all extremes, are still contiguous. - [Extremes] The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. - in Todd's "Johnson" [Sight] The harmony of things, as well as that of sound, from discord springs. - [Music] Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger. - [Anger] When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. - [Design] When by a pardoned murderer blood is spilt, the judge that pardoned hath the greatest guilt. - [Pardon] When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be to wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. - [Wealth] The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce, But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: So Age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat. - Cato Major (pt. IV, l. 47) [Age] Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. - Cooper's Hill [Poets] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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