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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Remorse begets reform.
He that runs may read.
The beggarly last doit.
All we behold is miracle.
Grief is itself a medicine.
I am out of humanity's reach.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
The still small voice is wanted.
Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
Still ending, and beginning still.
Absence of occupation is not rest.
Heaven's harmony is universal love.
A noisy man is always in the right.
Laugh at all you trembled at before.
Some people are more nice than wise.
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
Religion, richest favor of the skies.
Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
Great offices will have great talents.
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Blest be the art that can immortalize.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.
...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
That good diffused may more abundant grow.
Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
God made the country, and man made the town.
Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
