4 Quotes by Robert Dodsley

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov’d in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

To endeavor all one’s days to fortify one’s mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.