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“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”

The Gamester (1753), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. Chap. ii.

“The maid who modestly conceals
Her beauties, while she hides, reveals;
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws
Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.”

Edward Moore

The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”

Edward Moore

The Gamester (1753), Act iii. Sc. 4.

“But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.”

Edward Moore

The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.”

Edward Moore

The Happy Marriage.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”

Edward Moore

"Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).

“Can’t I another’s face commend,
And to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lowers,
As if her merit lessen’d yours?”

Edward Moore

The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. Fable ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Labour for his pains.”

Edward Moore

The Boy and the Rainbow. Compare: "I have had my labour for my travail", William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act i., Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)