The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends..

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage..

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above..

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse..

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene..

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero l….

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do..

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood..

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine..

And keeps the palace of the soul..

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more..

Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy t….

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find..

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek..

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other..

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot..

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease..

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass..

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field..

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become..