If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENIf passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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