The weak have remedies, the wise have joys,
Superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Night Thoughts, Night VIII. DR. E. YOUNG.
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
Vanity of Human Wishes. DR. S. JOHNSON.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
The Excursion, Bk. III. W. WORDSWORTH.
To know
That which before us lies in daily life
Is the prime wisdom.
Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII. MILTON.
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Moral Essays, Epistle IV. A. POPE.
WOMAN.
What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger
Is woman! What a whirlwind is her head,
And what a whirlpool full of depth and danger
Is all the rest about her.
Don Juan, Canto IX. LORD BYRON.
O woman! lovely woman! nature made thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There is in you all that we believe of heaven;
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Venice Preserved, Act i. Sc. 1. T. OTWAY.
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
O, what were man?—a world without a sun.
Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II. T. CAMPBELL.
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
The Beggar's Opera, Act ii. Sc. 1. J. GAY.