Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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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.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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