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Christians awake, salute the happy morn
Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.
Topic: Christmas
Source: Hymn for Christmas Day
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Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver, that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:
Strange all this difference should be,
'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
Topic: Comparisons
Source: Epigram
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Some say, that Seignior Bononchini
Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;
Others aver, to him, that Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Topic: Comparisons
Source: Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini, as given in the "London Journal"
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With more of thanks and less of thought,
I strive to make my matters meet;
To seek what ancient sages sought,
Physic and food in sour and sweet,
To take what passes in good part,
And keep the hiccups from the heart.
Topic: Content
Source: Careless Content
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With good and gentle-humored hearts
I choose to chat where'er I come
Whate'er the subject be that starts.
But if I get among the glum
I hold my tongue to tell the truth
And keep my breath to cool my broth.
Topic: Conversation
Source: Careless Content
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
Topic: Conversation
Source: Careless Content
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Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue?
And where is the violet's beautiful blue?
Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile?
That meadow, those daisies, why do they not smile?
Topic: Flowers
Source: A Pastoral (st. 8)
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Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Epigram on Two Monopolists
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I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.
Topic: Mind
Source: Careless Content
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Take time enough: all other graces
Will soon fill up their proper places.
Topic: Preaching
Source: Advice to Preach Slow
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As clear as a whistle.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Epistle to Lloyd (I)
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The point is plain as a pike staff.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
Are similes at hand for the distress
Of ladies who cannot have their own way.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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But scandal's my aversion--I protest
Against all evil speaking, even in jest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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But thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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But who alas! can love and then be wise?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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But who would scorn the month of June,
Because December with his breath so hoary,
Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,
To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Demons in act, but gods at least in face.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Despair of all recovery spoils longevity,
And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Famed
For every branch of every science known.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye
We late saw streaming o'er.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Gaming gains a loss.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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His eyes
Were with his heart. and that was far away.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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I tell the tale as it was told to me.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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If that you have a former friend for foe.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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My hair is grey, but not with years.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender;
God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;
But who the pretender is, or who is King--
God bless us all--that's quite another thing.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Miscellaneous Pieces
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