Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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