Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
JOHN DRYDENWhile I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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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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Pity melts the mind to love.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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