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Still on it creeps,
Each little moment at another's heels,
Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up
Of...
Thinks't thou there are no serpents in the world
But those that slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the...
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
Source: The Reacon, Act 1, Sc. 2,...
Busy work brings after ease;
Ease brings sport and sport brings rest;
For young and old, of all degrees,
The...
O! who shall lightly say that fame
is nothing but an empty name?
Source: The...
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about...
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be...
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have...
What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, tho we prize it not.
Source:...
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is...
He was not all a father's heart could wish;
But oh, he was my son! my only son.
O lovely Sisters! is it true
That they are all inspired by you,
And write by inward magic charm'd,
And high...
Words of affection, howso'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
This will be triumph! this will be happiness! yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life,...
The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its...
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .
The mind cloth shape itself to its own wants
And can bear all things.
Source:...
He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen...
How do men act, when they together stand,
on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck?
Do they not bravely...
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Source: The Family...