. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Go to Quote / Comment
Fate wings with every wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art, Go to Quote / Comment
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Go to Quote / Comment
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next... Go to Quote / Comment
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it Go to Quote / Comment