Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.