He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDENNone, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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