| Quotes |
Topic |
| Hypocrisy | He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in. |
| Luxury | On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively. |
| Mercy | Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. |
| Misers | He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor Away unalmed; and midst abundance died-- Sorest of evils!--died of utter want. |
| Proverbs | He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in. |
| Proverbs | A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. |
| Proverbs | A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. |
| Proverbs | All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. |
| Proverbs | And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. |
| Proverbs | But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. |
| Proverbs | Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. |
| Proverbs | Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. |
| Proverbs | Far from gay cities and the ways of men. |
| Proverbs | Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said; One half will never be believed, The other never read. |
| Proverbs | Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will. |
| Proverbs | Get wealth and power, if possible by grace, If not, by any means, get wealth and place. |
| Proverbs | Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. |
| Proverbs | Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one. |
| Proverbs | Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. |
| Proverbs | 'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. |
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