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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

John Dryden

Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
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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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
By 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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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

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