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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?