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Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne) — Epistle to Mrs. Higgons, 1690. L. 79. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.— filed under Content
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.— filed under Deeds
On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.— filed under Eyes
Immortality. I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.— filed under God
He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare: He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer, Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care; His wine and beere to strangers were not spare, And yet beside to all that hunger greved, His gates were ope, and they were there relived.— filed under Hospitality
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phœbus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.— filed under Jealousy
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.— filed under Love
A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.— filed under Mind
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. gg.— filed under Proverbs
Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.— filed under Proverbs
Though men determine, the gods do dispose. ii.— filed under Proverbs