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"For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot."
Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Women, like princes, find few real friends."
Advice to a Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair."
Advice to a Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The lover in the husband may be lost."
Advice to a Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"How much the wife is dearer than the bride."
An Irregular Ode.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair."
Epigram.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle."
Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain."
Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain