He said / Little, but to the purpose. |
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. |
He was the mildest mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. |
He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below |
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly. |
He who loves not his country, can love nothing |
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below |
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies |
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. |
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence. |
Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? |
His heart was one of those which most enamour us, / Wax to receive, and marble to retain. |
History is the devil's scripture |
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming. |
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. |