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.
JOHN DRYDENI am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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