Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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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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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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