Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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By education most have been misled.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Love is love’s reward.
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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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