Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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