| Quotes |
Topic |
| Proverbs | No creature smarts so little as a fool. |
| Proverbs | One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. |
| Proverbs | Love and life are for to-day. |
| Proverbs | Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows, Cupid averse rejects divided vows. |
| Proverbs | Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow. |
| Proverbs | To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit To publish it to all the nation; Sure John and I are more than quit. |
| Providence | Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. |
| Providence | Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. |
| Providence | Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. |
| Providence | Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. |
| Reason | Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? |
| Reason | Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near. |
| Reason | Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. |
| Reflection | The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. |
| Results | What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. |
| Results | The ends must justify the means. |
| Right | Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. |
| Right | No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. |
| Rivers | Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. |
| Rivers | Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . . In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides, Or else where Cam his winding vales divides? |
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