| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. |
| Absence | Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age. |
| Ambition | But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. |
| Ambition | Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. |
| Anger | Beware the fury of a patient man. |
| Anger | Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. |
| Anger | Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden. |
| Anger | Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden. |
| Appearance | All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. |
| Appearance | The habit does not make the monk. |
| Appetite | Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. |
| Argument | A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. |
| Ballads | Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart. |
| Beauty | Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. |
| Beauty | When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! |
| Boldness | Fortune befriends the bold. |
| Bravery | The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. |
| Business | Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven? |
| Cards | He's a sure card. |
| Christianity | Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor. |
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