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Topic |
| Proverbs | In idle wishes fools supinely stay, Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way. |
| Proverbs | Like lips like lettuce . (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] |
| Proverbs | The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. |
| Proverbs | He assigned it to regions more than tropical. |
| Proverbs | We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. |
| Providence | 'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. |
| Providence | Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. |
| Providence | God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin, So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in. - transcribed by James Henry Dixon, |
| Reading | The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile. |
| Reading | But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read. |
| Reform | All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. |
| Rest | A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. |
| Romance | Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. |
| Royalty | Now let us sing, long live the king. |
| Royalty | I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. |
| Satire | Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame, He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare. |
| Scandal | Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life, And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart. |
| Scripture | A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. |
| Service | We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause, True to the death, but not to be his slaves. |
| Sin | Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. |
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