| Quotes |
Topic |
| Money | A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money. |
| Mountains | Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. |
| Names | Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. |
| Nature | Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower, Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. |
| Nature | Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. |
| Nature | Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. |
| Nature | Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. |
| Novelty | The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged. |
| Peace | O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. |
| Peace | Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace. |
| Perspective | Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. |
| Pleasure | That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. |
| Pleasure | Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. |
| Poetry | Made poetry a mere mechanic art. |
| Poets | And spare the poet for his subject's sake. |
| Poets | Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard, To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more. |
| Poets | There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. |
| Poets | They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. |
| Poets | Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. |
| Government | How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. |
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