| Quotes |
Topic |
| Education | The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. |
| England | Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. |
| Epitaphs | This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene ma per star meglio, sto qui. |
| Errors | Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. |
| Faith | To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. |
| Familiarity | All objects lose by too familiar a view. |
| Fate | All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. |
| Fate | 'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. |
| Fear | The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind. |
| Fish | Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. |
| Forgiveness | Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. |
| Forgiveness | She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last. |
| Fortune | Ill fortune seldom comes alone. |
| Fortune | Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. |
| Fortune | It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence. |
| Freedom | I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. |
| Friendship | For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. |
| Genius | But genius must be born, and never can be taught. |
| Genius | Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
| Genius | Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. |
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