Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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