Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDENWhile 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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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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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