Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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