Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDENBy education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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