Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
JOHN DRYDENIf passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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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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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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