Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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