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
This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun. — John Armstrong Bears Copy Share Image
The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs. — John Armstrong Athletic Copy Share Image
“A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long… — John Armstrong Children Copy Share Image
Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun… — John Armstrong Air 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
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
There is, they say, (and I believe there is), A spark within us of th' immortal fire, That animates and moulds the… — John Armstrong Believe Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Deities 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
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
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
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the… — John Armstrong Calm 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
“Compatibility, on this view, is an achievement of love, not a precondition for love.” — John Armstrong Love Copy Share Image
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money… — John Armstrong Agree 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
“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
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without… — John Armstrong Boards 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 Code Copy Share Image
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds. — John Armstrong Care 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
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
“Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the… — John Armstrong Imagination Copy Share Image
