The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDENFor truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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