Quotes 901 till 920 of 1730.
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.
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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
Sketches and Essays, On Nicknames -
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear.
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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
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