Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Trust 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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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War is the trade of kings.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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