Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENAt home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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