“Weak withering age no rigid law forbids,
With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,
The sapless habit daily to bedew,
And give the hesitating wheels of life
Gliblier to play.”
Book II, line 484.
The Art of Preserving Health (1744)
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British poet 1709–1779Related quotes
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 3
Your advanced socialist may rave against private property even while he acquires it; but one of the best instincts in us is that which induces us to have one little piece of earth with a house and a garden which is ours; to which we can withdraw, in which we can be among our friends, into which no stranger may come against our will.
Radio talk, 22 May, 1942
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
Sade, act 1, scene 20 (p. 49)
Marat/Sade (1963)
“Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.”
Act II, scene v.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.