Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Our 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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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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