Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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