Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 159.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,

To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 221.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know

That life protracted is protracted woe.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 257.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,

And glides in modest innocence away.