The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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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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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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I 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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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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By education most have been misled.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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