Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDENSince 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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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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