No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENOur souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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