For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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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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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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