John Armstrong
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.Collection: Pain
You can't help people that don't want to be helped.Collection: People
The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.Collection: Beautiful
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.Collection: Death
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.Collection: Dream
Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.Collection: Health
You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.Collection: Priorities
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.Collection: Attitude
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.Collection: Views
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.Collection: Flames
How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!Collection: Mountain
Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.Collection: Bravery
We need to be free if we are to love.Collection: Needs
Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.Collection: Life
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.Collection: Serenity
Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.Collection: Wind
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.Collection: Way
We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.Collection: Mother
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.Collection: Moving
The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.Collection: Boys
What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.Collection: Wise
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.Collection: Summer
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.Collection: Heart
Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.Collection: Heart
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.Collection: Fate
Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.Collection: Pain
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.Collection: Hopeful
The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.Collection: Heaven
Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.Collection: Summer
When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.Collection: Ideas
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.Collection: Thrones
The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.Collection: Moving
If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.Collection: Luxury
Tis not for mortals always to be blest.Collection: Blessing
Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.Collection: Sex