A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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