Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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