The ruling passion be it what it will the ruling passion conquers reason still.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily t...
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.
Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers a...
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.