63 quotes found
Poet · English
English poet
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.”
“The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.”
“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”
“The man that makes a character makes foes.”
“Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.”
“As Love alone can exquisitely bless,Love only feels the marvellous of pain;Opens new veins of torture in the soul,And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”
“He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?”
“Accept a miracle instead of wit,—See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.”
“Time elaborately thrown away.”
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”
“When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.”
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
“They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,Produce their debt instead of their discharge.”
“Unlearned men of books assume the care,As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.”
“The booby father craves a booby son,And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.”
“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
“Be wise with speed;A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
