Quote#Wisdom
The trav’ller, if he chance to stray
Quote byEdward Moore · 1712–1757
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Fables for the Female Sex (1744), Fable xv.
English (original)
The trav’ller, if he chance to stray, May turn uncensured to his way; Polluted streams again are pure, And deepest wounds admit a cure; But woman no redemption knows; The wounds of honour never close.
— Edward Moore
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But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
Can’t I another’s face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lours, As if her merit lessen’d yours?
This is adding insult to injuries.
Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
O Poverty! thou source of human art, Thou great inspirer of the poet’s song!
The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.