A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Employment… is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
To think well of every other man’s condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love’s the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.