Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENAll authors to their own defects are blind.
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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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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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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