And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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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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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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