David Mallet Quotes

#1. Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

David Mallet

#2. What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

David Mallet

#3. True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

David Mallet

#4. I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

David Mallet

#5. The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

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#6. Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

David Mallet

#7. Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

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#8. A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

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#9. O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

David Mallet