A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. - David Mallet
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
- David Mallet
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends. - David Mallet
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. - David Mallet
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. - David Mallet
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon. - David Mallet
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. - David Mallet
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair. - David Mallet
What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. - David Mallet
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
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