Robert Dodsley Quotes

• The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

  Robert Dodsley

  Lust, Delight, Satiety

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• To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

  Robert Dodsley

  Philosophy, Learning, Mind

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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

  Robert Dodsley

  Wise, Mean, Adversity

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• The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

  Robert Dodsley

  Fall, Heart, Compassion

  Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1795). “The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..”, p.48

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