Cunning (again) ...

'Cunning has made many rich but it never left one respected"

Pet MS A18 p248r

Anticipation...

"smiling hope stands on tip toe"

Pet MS A48 p40R

Popularity...

"Popularity is a busy talker"  
"... popularity is not true fame"

From Clare's "Essay on Popularity", spread across a dozen manuscripts in the Peterborough Archive.

Pride & Titles...

[Image: George Cruikshank]

"Prides pomps are shadows all"
"Titles honours toys"

both in A18 p268r (Unpublished)

False friendship...

Discovered this brilliant alliterative line in a poem from a Clare manuscript  I found in the archive in Peterborough yesterday afternoon (I'm still working on it):

"Tho flattery findeth friends"

Here is the context...

Tho flattery findeth friends
In every grade & state
& telling truth offends
The lowly & the great
Truth when the worst is bye shall rise
When follys vapour stinks & flyes

Pet MS A18 p268r

First love...

"...joy's first dreams will haunt the mind"

MP IV 11

Uncertain love...

... the tumult in a timid smile

from 'The nightmare'

MP I 332