Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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