If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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While 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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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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