Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Votes: 20
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Votes: 16
Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Votes: 16
Order is heaven's first law. Votes: 9
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Votes: 5
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. Votes: 3
Passions are the gales of life. Votes: 0
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Votes: 0
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Votes: 0
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." Votes: 0
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. Votes: 0
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Votes: 0
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Votes: 0
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Votes: 0
To err is human; to forgive, divine. Votes: 0
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Votes: 0
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Votes: 0
Beauty draws us with a single hair. Votes: 0
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. Votes: 0
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. Votes: 0
The proper study of Mankind is Man. Votes: 0
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? Votes: 0
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... Votes: 0
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 0
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. Votes: 0
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. Votes: 0
Every woman is at heart a rake. Votes: 0
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, - health, peace, and competence Votes: 0
To err is human, to forgive, divine. Votes: 0
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. Votes: 0
On wrongs swift vengeance waits. Votes: 0
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. Votes: 0
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Votes: 0
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. Votes: 0
I have more zeal than wit. Votes: 0
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Votes: 0
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Votes: 0
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. Votes: 0
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Votes: 0
Wit is the lowest form of humor. Votes: 0
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Votes: 0
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Votes: 0
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. Votes: 0
Mankind is unamendable. Votes: 0
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Votes: 0
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. Votes: 0
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. Votes: 0
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go. Votes: 0
How vast a memory has Love! Votes: 0
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. Votes: 0
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Votes: 0
T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains. Votes: 0
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. Votes: 0
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. Votes: 0
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Votes: 0
Dogs, ye have had your day! Votes: 0
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Votes: 0
There is a majesty in simplicity. Votes: 0
Truth needs not flowers of speech. Votes: 0
A perfect woman's but a softer man. Votes: 0
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.] Votes: 0
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. Votes: 0
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. Votes: 0
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. Votes: 0
A field of glory is a field for all. Votes: 0
The laughers are a majority. Votes: 0
Monuments, like men, submit to fate. Votes: 0
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Votes: 0
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. Votes: 0
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. Votes: 0
Cavil you may, but never criticise. Votes: 0
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. Votes: 0
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. Votes: 0
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? Votes: 0
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Votes: 0
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. Votes: 0
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Votes: 0
Education forms the common mind. Votes: 0
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... Votes: 0
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? Votes: 0
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! Votes: 0
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. Votes: 0
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. Votes: 0
Hope springs eternal. Votes: 0
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. Votes: 0
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. Votes: 0
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Votes: 0
Die of a rose in aromatic pain. Votes: 0
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? Votes: 0
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Votes: 0
Virtue alone is happiness below. Votes: 0
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. Votes: 0
From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Votes: 0
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. Votes: 0
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain Votes: 0
Whatever is, is right. Votes: 0
Never find fault with the absent. Votes: 0
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Votes: 0
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment. Votes: 0
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose. Votes: 0
So perish all who do the like again. Votes: 0
A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age. Votes: 0
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! Votes: 0
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. Votes: 0
And not a vanity is given in vain. Votes: 0
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! Votes: 0
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. Votes: 0
Expression is the dress of thought. Votes: 0
This long disease, my life. Votes: 0
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Votes: 0
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! Votes: 0
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. Votes: 0