The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. |
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. |
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery |
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. |
The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. |
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. |
The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony. |
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. |
The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. |
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate |
The world's a bubble; and the life of man,/ Less than a span. |
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. |
There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well. |
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. |
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. |