Quote #4187
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and...
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Quote #4203
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,...
Quote #4188
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the...
Quote #4204
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but...
Quote #4189
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is...
Quote #4205
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of...
Quote #4190
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. 0-2
Quote #4206
How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue Who would not be that youth...
Quote #4191
‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see...
Quote #4207
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise...