Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENParting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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Hushed as midnight silence.
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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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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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