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.
JOHN DRYDENNone 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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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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