| Quotes |
Topic |
| Architecture | Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. |
| Blindness | Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy! |
| Business | This business will never hold water. |
| Deeds | The will for the deed. |
| Enemies | A weak Invention of the Enemy. |
| Fame | The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it. |
| Fashion | As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. |
| Loss | Losers must have leave to speak. |
| Spiders | I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em. |
| Success | Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on. |
| Talk | Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. |
| Tea | Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. |
| Theft | Stolen sweets are best. |
| Thieving | Stolen sweets are best. |
| Wooing | So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer. |
| Words | Words are but empty thanks. |
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