More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDENHim of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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War is the trade of kings.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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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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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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