| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ancestry | I came up-stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar. |
| Beauty | Beauty is the lover's gift. |
| Blessings | For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. |
| Charm | Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. |
| Christianity | Men are apt to offend where they find most goodness to forgive. |
| Criticism | There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased, And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. |
| Feet | And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats! |
| Hate | Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. |
| Pelicans | What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? |
| Pleasure | Who pleases one against his will. |
| Proverbs | Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. |
| Proverbs | Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. |
| Reward | Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. |
| Scandal | To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. |
| Security | Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. |
| Security | Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. |
| Sound | By magic numbers and persuasive sound. |
| Stupidity | I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. |
| Tomorrow | Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise, Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please. |
| Uncertainty | Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. |
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