David Mallet Quotes

• Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

  David Mallet

  Patience, Gratitude, Sweet

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• O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

  David Mallet

  Humble, Heaven, Enough

  Imitation of Horace.

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• The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

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  Moon, Owl, Scream

  David Mallet (1759). “Miscellaneous poems”, p.79

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• I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

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  Honesty, Bravery, Spurs

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• A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

  David Mallet

  People, Inspire, Noble

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• Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

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  Fear, Support, Soul

  David Mallet (1759). “Eurydice, a tragedy. Mustapha, a tragedy”, p.192

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• True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

  David Mallet

  Strong, Events, Virtue

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• What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

  David Mallet

  Hero, Despair, Prove

  David Mallet (1759). “The Works of David Mallet...: Alfred, a masque. The life of Francis Bacon”, p.20

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