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- Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only…
- Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
- There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
- Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
- In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
- The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
- Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
- For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
- Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a…
- No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal…
- The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
- Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
- One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
- No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being only her friend.
- In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The love of pleasure,…
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