Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDENLet grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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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.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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