One self-approving hour whole ...

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

What Tully said of war may be ...

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: 'It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace.' But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Devotion's self shall steal a ...

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

The enormous faith of many mad...

The enormous faith of many made for one.

The dull flat falsehood serves...

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

The flower's are gone when the...

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

It is sure the hardest science...

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

The search of our future being...

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

Some people are commended for ...

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Genius involves both envy and ...

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

A field of glory is a field fo...

A field of glory is a field for all.

Such as are still observing up...

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

Homer excels all the inventors...

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Every woman is at heart a rake...

Every woman is at heart a rake.

A king may be a tool, a thing ...

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

The laughers are a majority....

The laughers are a majority.

Monuments, like men, submit to...

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

To the Elysian shades dismiss ...

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

A pear-tree planted nigh:

A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly ...

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.