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There's no repentance in the grave.
In books, or work, or healthful play.
Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.
Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.
Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.
Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.
thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.