Top 8 Quotes by David Mallet

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

Patience, Gratitude, Sweet

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.

Humble, Heaven, Enough

Imitation of Horace.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

Moon, Owl, Scream

David Mallet (1759). “Miscellaneous poems”, p.79

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

Honesty, Bravery, Spurs

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

People, Inspire, Noble

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

Fear, Support, Soul

David Mallet (1759). “Eurydice, a tragedy. Mustapha, a tragedy”, p.192

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

Strong, Events, Virtue

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

Hero, Despair, Prove

David Mallet (1759). “The Works of David Mallet...: Alfred, a masque. The life of Francis Bacon”, p.20

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