What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey. — John Armstrong Faultless Copy Share Image
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds. — John Armstrong Care Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain. — John Armstrong Carpe Copy Share Image
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. — John Armstrong Evil Copy Share Image
Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in… — John Armstrong Drunkenness Copy Share Image
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. — John Armstrong Betray Copy Share Image
The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs. — John Armstrong Athletic Copy Share Image
“What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.” — John Armstrong Artifice Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Death Copy Share Image
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong Empires Copy Share Image
Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a… — John Armstrong Deist Copy Share Image
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong Blunt Copy Share Image
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the… — John Armstrong Anger Copy Share Image
Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow… — John Armstrong Air Copy Share Image
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we… — John Armstrong Appreciate love Copy Share Image
Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone: The greener juices are by… — John Armstrong Blood Copy Share Image
The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys… — John Armstrong Blood Copy Share Image
Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well.… — John Armstrong Blameless Copy Share Image
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to… — John Armstrong Causes Copy Share Image
What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow… — John Armstrong Blind Copy Share Image
“This is the internal tragedy of love. If love is successful, if our love is returned and develops into a relationship, the… — John Armstrong Face to face Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Baseness Copy Share Image
We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the… — John Armstrong Barriers Copy Share Image
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid… — John Armstrong Appetite Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new… — John Armstrong Bashful Copy Share Image
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and… — John Armstrong Arena Copy Share Image
When the tribal groups of december trade Seated in the figure of crocodile And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made… — John Armstrong Christmas Copy Share Image
“But mostly what we think of as the 'meaning' of life concerns the style of the private autobiography we each write and… — John Armstrong High expectations Copy Share Image
If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. — John Armstrong Bed Copy Share Image
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. — John Armstrong Adapted Copy Share Image
You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all. — John Armstrong Asks Copy Share Image
