34 quotes found
Diplomat and poet · English
English diplomat and poet
“All jargon of the schools.”
“The end must justify the means.”
“He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.”
“Hope is but the dream of those who wake.”
“Hope is but the dream of those that wake.”
“And hope is but a dream of those that wake.”
“Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.”
“Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.”
“They never taste who always drink They always talk who never think.”
“Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.”
“Our hopes, like towering falcons, aimAt objects in an airy height;The little pleasure of the gameIs from afar to view the flight.”
“From ignorance our comfort flows.The only wretched are the wise.”
“That if weak women went astray,Their stars were more in fault than they.”
“Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”
“Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrivesShe builds our quiet as she forms our lives;Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,And opens in each heart a little heaven.”
“Be to her virtues very kind;Be to her faults a little blind;Let all her ways be unconfined;And clap your padlock — on her mind!”
“And thought the nation ne'er would thriveTill all the whores were burnt alive.”
“He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience;Backed his opinion with quotations.”
“Cured yesterday of my disease,I died last night of my physician.”
