| Quotes |
Topic |
| Philanthropy | In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. |
| Piety | A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. |
| Pleasure | I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please, I am lonely because I am miserable. |
| Poetry | Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. |
| Praise | He who praises everybody, praises nobody. |
| Present | The future is purchased by the present. |
| Pride | Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages. |
| Pride | Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages. |
| Proverbs | Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest, Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. |
| Proverbs | He threatens many that hath injured one. |
| Proverbs | I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. |
| Proverbs | Let them call it mischief, Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue. |
| Prudence | The first years of man must make provision for the last. |
| Prudence | Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. |
| Quotes | He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. |
| Reading | A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. |
| Reading | What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. |
| Revenge | Revenge is an act of passion, vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged, crimes are avenged. |
| Rhetoric | Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. |
| Royalty | The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. |
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