He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind.
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
Presence of mind, and courage in distress, Are more than armies to procure success.
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind.
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two.
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