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Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

The plainest case in many words entangling.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

But dreams full oft are found of real events
The form and shadows.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man ...

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.