| Quotes |
Topic |
| Courage | Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. |
| Miracles | When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd. |
| Post | Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. |
| Proverbs | Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures, Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But, be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well. |
| Proverbs | A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people-- A daw's not reckoned a religious bird Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple. |
| Proverbs | A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth. |
| Proverbs | At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles. |
| Proverbs | Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff, In all his pomp of pageantry, as if He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail. |
| Proverbs | But, oh! the love that gold must crown! |
| Proverbs | For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat. |
| Proverbs | He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. |
| Proverbs | Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts, By the magic of ale and cider. |
| Proverbs | Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing-- Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes, To caper on sunny greens and slopes, Instead of the dance upon nothing. |
| Proverbs | Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds! Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner, Doomed to be roasted for a dinner. |
| Proverbs | Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?-- Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods, And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot! |
| Proverbs | "Rogue that I am," he whispers to himself, "I lie, I cheat--do anything for pelf, But who on earth can say I am not pious?" |
| Proverbs | She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon In her mouth, not a wooden ladle. |
| Proverbs | The doctors gave her over--to an ass. |
| Proverbs | The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. |
| Proverbs | The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch. |
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