And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENThey, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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