A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
JOHN DRYDEN
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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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 objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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