“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”
“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.”
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
“No one was ever scolded out of their sins.”
“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.”
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.”
“Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.”
“No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.”
“O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
“A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.”
“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”
“The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.”
“An epigram is but a feeble thing – With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.”
“Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.”
“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
“The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.”
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”
“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
“God made the country, and man made the town.”
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.”
“Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
“Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”
“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”
“Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.”
“Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.”
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