When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDENEvery 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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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The winds are out of breath.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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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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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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