Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.
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