| Quotes |
Topic |
| Post | He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful, messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some. |
| Poverty | The beggarly last doit. |
| Praise | Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. |
| Prayer | And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. |
| Preaching | There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. |
| Preaching | I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. |
| Preaching | He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. |
| Preaching | The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem, and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene! |
| Preaching | A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. |
| Preaching | The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year, But oh! it cuts him like a scythe When tithing time draws near. |
| Printing | Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. |
| Prison | Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. |
| Profanity | It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. |
| Proverbs | Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. |
| Proverbs | The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. |
| Proverbs | How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. |
| Proverbs | God made the country, and man made the town. |
| Proverbs | Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. |
| Proverbs | Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean, puts out our fires And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign. |
| Proverbs | Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. |
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