Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Few know the use of life before 'tis past.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
But love's a malady without a cure.
Love is love's reward.
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