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.
JOHN DRYDENHe trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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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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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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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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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Welcome, 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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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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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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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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