Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENIf all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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