The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDENNot 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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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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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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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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The winds are out of breath.
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