And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENPoliticians neither love nor hate.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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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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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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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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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Love is love’s reward.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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The winds are out of breath.
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