The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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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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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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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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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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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