Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
War is the trade of kings.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
They say everything in the world is good for something.
How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.
He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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