Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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