Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENThree 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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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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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