Quote#Solitude
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn
Quote byMatthew Prior · 1664–1721
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.
— Matthew Prior
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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
That if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they.
The end must justify the means.
Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.
From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise.
Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.