Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN
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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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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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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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