None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
JOHN DRYDENBeauty, 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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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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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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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