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No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.