Moral Essays Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject	Source
1	The devil was piqued such saintship to behold, And longed to tempt him, like good Job of old; For Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.	Wealth	Moral Essays
2	Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth. One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemnized the Lord's. Constant at church and change, his gains were sure, His giving Rare, save farthings to the poor.	Wealth	Moral Essays
3	Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betrayed.	Wealth	Moral Essays
4	And mistress of herself, though china fall.	Wife	Moral Essays
5	Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.	Wisdom	Moral Essays
6	Ladies like variegated tulips show, 'T is to their changes half their charms we owe. Fine by defect, and delicately weak, Their happy spots the nice admirer take.	Woman	Moral Essays
7	And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman 's at best a contradiction still.	Woman	Moral Essays
8	In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind; Those only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.	Passion	Moral Essays
9	The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. * * * * * Hear then the truth: 'Tis Heav'n each passion sends, And different men directs to different ends. Extremes in nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use.	Passion	Moral Essays
10	And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.	Passion	Moral Essays

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