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But in his duty prompt at every call,
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
Topic: Preaching
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 165)
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They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam
whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first
born--ah!
Topic: Preaching
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 165)
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Topic: Pride
Source: The Traveller (l. 327)
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We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to
enhance the value of its favours.
Topic: Providence
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I)
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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and
receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Topic: Reading
Source: The Citizen of the World (letter LXXV)
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused
before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Topic: Reading
Source: The Citizen of the World (letter LXXXIII)
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves
immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some.
The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others
others. . . . Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with
weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every
noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an
undistinguished heap of ruins.
Topic: Ruin
Source: The Bee (no. IV, A City Night-Piece)
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Topic: Self-improvement
Source: None
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The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is--to die.
Topic: Shame
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXIV)
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Silence gives consent.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
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Nobody with me at sea but myself.
Topic: Solitude
Source: The Haunch of Venison
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Topic: Speech
Source: None
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Topic: Sports
Source: None
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He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 166)
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Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
Topic: Teaching
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 201)
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Tenderness is a virtue.
Topic: Tenderness
Source: None
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Let observation with observant view,
Observe mankind from China to Peru.
Topic: Traveling
Source: paraphrasing of Johnson
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Topic: Weakness
Source: The Traveller
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Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Topic: Weakness
Source: None
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Topic: Wife
Source: None
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Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Topic: Wishes
Source: The Hermit (st. 8)
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
Topic: Wit
Source: Retaliation (l. 96)
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