Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.
The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc. , and the less we think about it the better.
Death hath no dominion.
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
