Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove w….

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..

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

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become..

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

And keeps the palace of the soul..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass..

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

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

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

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

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….

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