A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDEN
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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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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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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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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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