And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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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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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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