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Oaths
Oaths: He that imposes an Oath makes it, Not he that for Convenience takes it.
Obedience
Obedience: The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
Oblivion
Oblivion: Oblivion is not to be hired.
Obscurity
Obscurity: It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb'd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When…
Observation
Observation: Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
Occupations-Acting
Occupations-Acting: Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
Occupations-Agriculture
Occupations-Agriculture: Ye rigid Ploughmen! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep…
Occupations-Alchemy
Occupations-Alchemy: Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
Occupations-Authorship
Occupations-Authorship: Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Occupations-Cabinet-Making
Occupations-Cabinet-Making: Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in…
Occupations-Culinary
Occupations-Culinary: Hire me twenty cunning cooks.
Occupations-Hatters
Occupations-Hatters: My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi'…
October
October: October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay an Opal on her breast, And hope will lull those woes…
Occupations-Jeweler
Occupations-Jeweler: It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…
Occupations-Journalism
Occupations-Journalism: Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading. For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Occupations-Law
Occupations-Law: Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her…
Occupations-Medicine
Occupations-Medicine: A pill that at the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
Ovid
Ovid: Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.
Occupations-Mercantile
Occupations-Mercantile: In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
Occupations-Military
Occupations-Military: To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.
Occupations-Navigation
Occupations-Navigation: You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.
Occupations-Painting
Occupations-Painting: Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Occupations-Post
Occupations-Post: A piece of simple goodness-a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring…
Occupations-Preaching
Occupations-Preaching: The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but more…
Occupations-Printing
Occupations-Printing: Letter III. I'll print it, And shame the fools.
Occupations-Shoemaking
Occupations-Shoemaking: In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different?…
Occupations-Tailoring
Occupations-Tailoring: Tailoring. Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Occupations-Teaching
Occupations-Teaching: Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o'er…
Occupations-Tobacconists
Occupations-Tobacconists: Tobacco, an outlandish weed, Doth in the land strange wonders breed; It taints the breath, the blood it dries, It…
Occupations-Tonsorial
Occupations-Tonsorial: Hoary whiskers and a forky beard.
Occupations-Undertakers
Occupations-Undertakers: When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
Ocean
Ocean: Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
Opinion
Opinion: Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
Opportunity
Opportunity: There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
Oratory
Oratory: O opportunity, thy guilt is great! 'Tis thou that executest the traitor's treason; Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get…
Oracle
Oracle: The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.
Order
Order: Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green. Venus and Adonis. L. 145. Fear not, my lord, I'll…
Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl Of
Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl Of: statesman, soldier, and dramatist.. IRELAND, 1621-1679 OSGOOD, FRANCES S., poet, UNITED STATES, 1811-1850…