Familiar Quotations Part 55

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What can enn.o.ble sots, or slaves, or cowards?

Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.

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A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the n.o.blest work of G.o.d.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.

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Think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's G.o.d.

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Formed by thy converse happily to steer Prom grave to gay, from lively to severe.

MORAL ESSAYS.

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'Tis from high life high characters are drawn-- A saint in c.r.a.pe is twice a saint in lawn.

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'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke, Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.

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Whether the charmers sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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Fine by defect and delicately weak.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

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And mistress of herself, though china fall.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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The ruling pa.s.sion, be it what it will, The ruling pa.s.sion conquers reason still.

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Extremes in nature equal good produce.