Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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