All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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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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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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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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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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