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Books should to one of these four ends conduce for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Source: In Wisdom of...
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings...
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will...
Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away...
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by...
When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy...
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better...
Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care...
Where ignorance is bliss -
Tis folly to be wise.
Source: Ode on a Distant...
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool...
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his...
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a...
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of...
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Source: In Wisdom of the...
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it...
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
Source: In...