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?
JOHN DRYDENThus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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