Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDENSelf-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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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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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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