| Quotes |
Topic |
| Autumn | Thus sung the shepherds till 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 lengthened every shade. |
| Bees | In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? |
| Birds | Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. |
| Birds | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| Blame | Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. |
| Blessings | The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. |
| Boating | Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. |
| Boldness | Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. |
| Bribery | Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. |
| Bribery | Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. |
| Cause | Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. |
| Charity | In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. |
| Choice | Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. |
| Christianity | Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. |
| Churches | No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. |
| Churches | Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name. |
| Churches | To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. |
| Circumstance | Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. |
| Clouds | Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. |
| Conversation | Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. |
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