Such is the delight of mental superiority , that none on, whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.Samuel Johnson1751★ 5.3
PoemThe paths of glory lead but to the grave.Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751★ 4.5
Almanac‘Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.Benjamin Franklin1751★ 3.8
PoemFar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751★ 3.5
PoemHere rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751★ 3.5
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.Samuel Johnson1751★ 1.9
NovelIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.Henry FieldingAmelia · 1751★ 1.9
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