Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDENTrust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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By education most have been misled.
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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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Order is the greatest grace.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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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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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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By 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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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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