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Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by David Mallet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish dramatist David Mallet.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

David Mallet

David Mallet was a Scottish poet and dramatist.

Scottish - Dramatist | 1705 - 1765

Source: Wikipedia

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

David Mallet

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

David Mallet

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. — © David Mallet

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

David Mallet

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

David Mallet

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

David Mallet

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