When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDENI am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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