If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDENA 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.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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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.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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