This picture, plac'd the busts between
Gives Satire all its strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen
While Folly glares at length.
Epigrams
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: an epigram said by Warton to be the "most celebrated of modern epigrams", in his "Essay on Pope," I,
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Transcendental moonshine.
Moon
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: found in "Life of John Sterling", p. 84 (People's Ed.), applied to teaching of Coleridge
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The service was of great array,
That they were served with that day.
Thus they ate, and made them glad,
With such service as they had--
When they had dined, as I you say,
Lordis and ladies yede to play;
Some to tables and some to chess,
With other games more and less.
Festivities
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Life of Ipomydon--Harleian Library, (British Museum), Manuscript No. 2,252
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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day! For it is Life,
The very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the Varieties
And Realities of your Existence;
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived
Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of Dawn.
Day
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Salutation of the Dawn, from the Sanscrit
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If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on you hand a Turquoise blue,
Success will bless whate'er you do.
December
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: December, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
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October's child is born for woe,
And life's vicissitudes must know;
But lay on Opal on her breast,
And hope will lull those woes to rest.
October
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: October, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
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The February born will find
Sincerity and peace of mind;
Freedom from passion and from care,
If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.
February
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: February, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
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The glowing Ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born,
Then will they be exempt and free
From love's doubt and anxiety.
July
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: July, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
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Who comes with Summer to this earth
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring of Agate on her hand,
Can health, wealth, and long life command.
June
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: June, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
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Who in this world of ours their eyes
In March first open shall be wise;
In days of peril firm and brave,
And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.
March
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: March, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
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. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.
Imagination
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Letter by F.A. to L.B., reproduced in "Miscell. Antiq. Anglic"
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When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination,
seen the Britons of some future century, walking by the banks of
the Thames, then overgrown with weeds and almost impassable with
rubbish. The father points to his son where stood St. Paul's,
the Monument, the Bank, the Mansion House, and other places of
the first distinction.
Ruin
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Humourous Thoughts on the Removal of the Seat of Empire and Commerce, in "London Magazine", 1745
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