Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENIf 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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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Not 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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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