God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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