All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
Self praise is no praise at all.
Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
The very best of vineyards is the cellar
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
Come what may, I have been blest.
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
In solitude, where we are least alone.
You should have a softer pillow than my heart.
A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.
Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."
The busy have no time for tears.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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