1. "All human things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;
This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus young
Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long:
In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute
Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute."
2. “A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
3. “And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.”
4. “A thing well said will be wit in all languages.”
5. “Beware the fury of a patient man.”
6. “But genius must be born, and never can be taught.”
7. "By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow."
8. “Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,
Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;
For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,
Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;
Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,
Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.”
9. “Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.”
10. "Errors like straws upon the surface flow:
Who would search for pearls must dive below."
11. “For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.”
12. “From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.”
13. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
14. “How happy the lover,
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain.”
15. “All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
16. “I have a soul that like an ample shield
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
17. “Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
18. ”In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”
19. “It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.”
20. “Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
21. “Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.”
22. “Love is love's reward.”~
23. “Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
24. “Love works a different way in different minds,
the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
25. “Men are but children of a larger growth,
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain.”
26. ”Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.”
27. “Nor is the people's judgment always true:
the most may err as grossly as the few.”
28. “Not to ask is not be denied.”
29. "Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are."
30. “Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,
That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
31. “Reason saw not, till faith sprung the light.”
32. “She hugg’d the offender, and forgave the offence:
Sex to the last.”
33. “Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.”
34. “Take not away the life you cannot give:
For all things have an equal right to live.”
35. “There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!”
36. “The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away.”
37. “'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.”
38. “To die is landing on some distant shore.”
39. “Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”
40. “We spirits have just such natures
We had for all the world, when human creatures;
And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,
Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.”
41. “With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears,
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.”
42. “When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
43. “When he spoke, what tender words he used! / So softly, that like flakes of / feathered snow, / They melted as they fell.”
44. “Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.”
45. “Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
