None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENBeauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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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.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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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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Merit challenges envy.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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