| Quotes |
Topic |
| Plagiarism | With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. |
| Post | Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. |
| Post | Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe: Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! |
| Post | Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. |
| Praise | Solid pudding against empty praise. |
| Praise | To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! |
| Praise | Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. |
| Pride | What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. |
| Pride | In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. |
| Pride | Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. |
| Printing | I'll print it, And shame the fools. |
| Progress | Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. |
| Proverbs | One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. |
| Proverbs | To err is human, to forgive, divine. |
| Proverbs | Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. |
| Proverbs | Men would be angels, angels would be gods. |
| Proverbs | Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. |
| Proverbs | Chaos of thought and passion all confused. |
| Proverbs | Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. |
| Proverbs | So obliging that he ne'er obliged. |
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