A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDENNo government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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