O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDENNot sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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