A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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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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