| Quotes |
Topic |
| Eating | And solid pudding against empty praise. |
| Eating | One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. |
| Eating | "Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. |
| Eating | "An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant: Give me again my hollow Tree, A Crust of Bread, and Liberty." |
| Echo | And more than echoes talk along the walls. |
| Education | 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. |
| Enjoyment | Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. |
| Envy | Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. |
| Envy | Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. |
| Errors | Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. |
| Expectation | Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed. |
| Falcons | Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? |
| Fancy | When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. |
| Fashion | Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. |
| Faults | The glorious fault of angels and of gods. |
| Fidelity | Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. |
| Fidelity | Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. |
| Fire | Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. |
| Flattery | By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. |
| Foppery | Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. |
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