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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Love is a second life.
My voice is still for war.
Colors speak all languages.
All of heaven we have below.
Virtue which shuns, the day.
Encourage innocent amusement.
Jesters do often prove prophets.
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
In rising sighs and falling tears.
A great large book is a great evil.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Nothing makes men sharper than want.
Look what a little vain dust we are!
Troops of heroes undistinguished die.
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.
See in what peace a Christian can die.
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.
Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
The post of honour is a private station.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!
Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
Health and happiness give rise to each other.
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
There is a great amity between designing and art.
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
