Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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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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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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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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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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