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| Proverbs | Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. |
| Proverbs | Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. |
| Proverbs | Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er. |
| Proverbs | Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting! |
| Proverbs | Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do, Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round, By--sending the wine round too. |
| Proverbs | So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried. |
| Proverbs | Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. |
| Proverbs | The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart Is stirred thus in the wound again. |
| Proverbs | Then fill the bowl--way with gloom! Our joys shall always last; For Hope shall brighten days to come, And Mem'ry gild the past. |
| Proverbs | Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide. |
| Proverbs | Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. |
| Proverbs | To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings. |
| Proverbs | While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. |
| Proverbs | Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade. |
| Proverbs | Wouldst thou, or thou, Forego what's now, For all that hope may say? No--joy's reply, From every eye, Is, "Live we while we may." |
| Proverbs | You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. |
| Reputation | How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! |
| Royalty | 'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne, |
| Shoemaking | When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. |
| Shoemaking | To each foot its own shoe. |
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