Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDENThree poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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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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