Silence in times of suffering is the best.
JOHN DRYDENSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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