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- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
- A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
- Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
- As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
- Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more…
- Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
- Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts,…
- See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second…
- Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with…
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to…
- Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
- The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
- The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be…
- Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race,…
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from…
- And more than echoes talk along the walls.
- No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to…
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