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- From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.
- Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that…
- For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
- And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the…
- Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
- For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
- When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow…
- Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is…
- There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
- And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful…
- What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
- From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The…
- Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the…
- Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but…
- None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the…
- From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant…
- Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are…
- Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
- Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
- Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
- We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they…
- By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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