Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
Dark with excessive bright.
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.