Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENWelcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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