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Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
They say everything in the world is good for something.
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.