Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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