Pity melts the mind to love.
JOHN DRYDENWhat, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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