Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
JOHN DRYDENWhat precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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