| Quotes |
Topic |
| Blushes | We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before. |
| Content | Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last. |
| Drinking | Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why? |
| Drinking | The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair. |
| Eternity | Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. |
| Eternity | Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! |
| Faith | His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. |
| Fame | What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? |
| Gods | Nature's self's thy Ganymede. |
| Gold | Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. |
| Grasshoppers | Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. |
| Hair | An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. |
| Home | For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. |
| Hope | Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. |
| Inspirational | Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. |
| Jewels | Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. |
| Money | Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away. |
| Money | Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. |
| Opportunity | Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. |
| Opportunity | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
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