While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Oft times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag'd.John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!Walter ScottWrite now →Details & source
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.Benjamin FranklinWrite now →Details & source
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When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more.Henry FieldingWrite now →Details & source
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescen…Jonathan SwiftWrite now →Details & source
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb, And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.Marcus AureliusWrite now →Details & source
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.John KeatsWrite now →Details & source
We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
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Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source