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“By all means use some time to be alone.”
“The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.”
“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”
“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”
“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
“Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.”
“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.”
“Wonder is involuntary praise.”
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.”
“One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.”
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”