While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDEN
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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