| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. |
| Advice | There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. |
| Appearance | Handsome is that handsome does. |
| Conscience | Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us. |
| Contention | So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. |
| Immortality | It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. |
| Duty | When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. |
| Eating | When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef. |
| Envy | Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. |
| Example | Illustrious predecessors. |
| Finance and Economics | Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. |
| Heart Quotes | A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. -Henry Fielding. |
| Inspirational | Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. |
| Intemperance | Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. |
| Joy | Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. |
| Literature | Republic of letters. |
| Melancholy | Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. |
| Miscellaneous | Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. |
| Modesty | The modesty's a candle to thy merit. |
| Names | The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. |
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