All heiresses are beautiful.
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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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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