Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDENErrors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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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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And plenty makes us poor.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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What, 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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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