Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDENBut far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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