| Quotes |
Topic |
| Temptation | But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. |
| Twilight | . . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. |
| Vanity | And not a vanity is given in vain. |
| Vanity | Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. |
| Vice | Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast, But shall the dignity of vice be lost? |
| Vice | Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen, Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. |
| Vice | The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." |
| Victory | We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. |
| Victory | But if We have such another victory, we are undone. |
| Villainy | Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. |
| Visions | Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. |
| Vulgarity | To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. |
| Weakness | Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. |
| Weakness | Fine by defect, and delicately weak. |
| Wealth | Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace, If not, by any means get wealth and place. |
| Wealth | What riches give us let us then inquire, Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? |
| Wealth | Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. |
| Wickedness | Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. |
| Will | And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. |
| Winter | But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews, Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse, Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. |
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