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- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of…
- The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
- Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
- Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
- The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in…
- In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage…
- Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
- Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to…
- It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation…
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
- There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its…
- An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an…
- Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up…
- Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
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