Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENBe fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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The winds are out of breath.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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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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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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