Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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