Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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