Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDENAnger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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