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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.