While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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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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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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And plenty makes us poor.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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By education most have been misled.
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