Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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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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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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