Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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