Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENSo softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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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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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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