David Mallet Quotes
1700–1765 Scotland
David Mallet (or Malloch; c. 1705 – 21 April 1765) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.
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Who has not known ill fortune, never knew
Himself, or his own virtue.
Alfred (1740)
Words that weep, and strains that agonise.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue:
Where patience, honour, sweet humanity,
Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.
Alfred (1740)
Strains that sigh and words that weep.
The human race are sons of sorrow born;
And each must have his portion. Vulgar minds
Refuse or cranch beneath their load: the brave
Bear theirs without repining.
Alfred (1740)
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends.