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"The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"'T is not in mortals to command success, But we 'll do more, Sempronius,--we 'll deserve it."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 4.
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"'T 's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 4.
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"Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 4.
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"Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex."
Cato. Act i. Sc. 4.
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"My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?"
Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!"
Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage."
Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"The woman that deliberates is lost."
Cato. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country."
Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4.
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"What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!"
Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4.
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"When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station."
Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4.
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"It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!"
Cato. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man."
Cato. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow."
Cato. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground."
A Letter from Italy.
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"Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete."
The Campaign. Line 219.
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"And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."
The Campaign. Line 291.
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"And those that paint them truest praise them most."
The Campaign. Last line.
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"The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim."
Ode.
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"Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole."
Ode.
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"For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine."
Ode.
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"Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world."
Horace. Ode iii. Book iii.
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"In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee."
Spectator. No. 68.
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"Much may be said on both sides."
Spectator. No. 122.
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"The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye."
Spectator. No. 444.
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"Round-heads and wooden-shoes are standing jokes."
Prologue to The Drummer.
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