Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDENWe by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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They think too little who talk too much.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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