Samuel Rogers Quotes

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• Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
• Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.
• Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable…
• I lived to write, and wrote to live.
• Then never less alone than when alone.
• When a new book is published, read an old one.
• It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
• To know her was to love her.
• A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
• Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.
• Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
• The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A…
• That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets…
• Gentle to others, to himself severe.
• Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
• Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if…
• The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
• Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

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