Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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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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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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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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