If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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