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Debt: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 600.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain!— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night I. L. 212.

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night III. L. 104.

Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead.— YOUNG — Love of Fame. L. 97.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 633.

The knell, the shroud, the mattock and the grave, The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 10.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 52.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession. γ.— BACON — Maxims of the Law. Preface.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate. S.— COWPER — Retirement. L. 559.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!— EMERSON — Suum Cuique.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.— ALEX. HAMILTON — Letter to Robert

Morris. April 30, 1781. At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing; " that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture.— THOMAS JEFFERSON — On Public Debts.

Letter to John W. Epps. Nov. 6, The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.— QUARLES — Emblems. Bk. II.