Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.
Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
A death-bed's a detector of the heart.
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
Too low they build who build below the skies.