I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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