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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State.
Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
The laws are with us, and God on our side.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
How little do they see what is, who frame
Their hasty judgement upon that which seems!
A Tale of Paraguay (1827)
What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
What wilt not woman, gentle woman, dare
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Madoc in Wales (1805)
If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Happy those
Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
Taught wisdom to mankind!
St. Austin might have returned another answer to him that asked him, "What God employed himself about before the world was made?" "He was making hell."
The grave
Is but the threshold of eternity.
Make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.
Curse of Kehama (1810)
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Cupid "the little greatest god."
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.
And so never ending,
But always descending.
How does the water
Come down at Lodore?
The Cataract of Lodore (1820)
Three things a wise man will not trust,
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith.