Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDENNone would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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