While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDENDeath in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Anger 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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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