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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.— filed under Affliction
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. The Passionate Pilgrim. St. 13. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.— filed under Beauty
Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.— filed under Belief
For his bounty There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like.— filed under Benevolence
And being fed by us you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparrow.— filed under Birds-Cuckoo
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.— filed under Birds-Dove
Pope's trans. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxims. 216. There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him. LONGFELLOw-Christus. Pt. III.— filed under Bravery
New England Tragedies. John— filed under Character
New England Tragedies. John— filed under Character
I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.— filed under Character
I will be gone: That pitiful rumour may report my flight, To consolate thine ear.— filed under Consolation
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.— filed under Content
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? * * * * * * Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? * * * * * * And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?— filed under Courage
The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.— filed under Day
Have I not hideous death within my view, Retaining but a quantity of life Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax Resolveth from its figure 'gainst the fire?— filed under Death
Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp.— filed under Death
Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is in this world but grief and woe? a. Henry VI.— filed under Despair
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. Merchant of— filed under Despair
Christ. But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.— filed under Doubt
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.— filed under Eloquence
I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart.— filed under Expression
There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face.— filed under Face
Farewell, and stand fast.— filed under Farewell
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life.— filed under Fear
Lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one!— filed under Flowers-Forget-Me-Not
O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool Do with so good a woman?— filed under Folly
Share the advice betwixt you: if both gain, all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd, And is enough for both.— filed under Gain
What would you have? your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.— filed under Gentleness
Seward, March 3, 1861. For government, through high and low and lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like music.— filed under Government
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.— filed under Gratitude
I. 15. Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow: If that be all the difference in his love, I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.— filed under Hair
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.— filed under Ingratitude
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.— filed under Joy
I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?— filed under Judgment
The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)-— filed under Kisses
By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.— filed under Love
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.— filed under Love
What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?— filed under Man
He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?— filed under Murder
'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels Of rich and exquisite form; their value's great; And I am something curious, being strange, To have them in safe stowage.— filed under Occupations-Jeweler
Orders Gray. See FLETCHER-The— filed under Passion
Pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees proud man's— filed under Prison
HEYWOOD-A Woman Killed with— filed under Proverbs
THOS. MIDDLETON-A Mad World, My— filed under Proverbs
I owe you one. GEORGE COLMAN (the Younger)-The— filed under Proverbs
Praise the bridge that carried you over. GEO. COLMAN (the Younger)-Heir-at-— filed under Proverbs
THOS. MIDDLETON-Blurt, Master— filed under Iii
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.— filed under Providence
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.— filed under Resignation
'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw. GEORGE COLMAN (The Younger)-— filed under Royalty
Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B. J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit. The Return from Parnassus; or, the— filed under Shakespeare
O! she will sing the savageness out of a bear.— filed under Singers
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!— filed under Sleep
L'Esprit dans L'Histoire. Righteous Heaven, In thy great day of vengeance! Blast the Blast the traitor And his pernicious counsels, who, for wealth, For pow'r, the pride of greatness, or revenge, Would plunge his native land in civil wars.— filed under War
The bay-trees in our country all are wither'd And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change; Rich men look sad and ruffians dance an leap, The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war.— filed under War