Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDENWelcome, 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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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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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.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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