Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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By education most have been misled.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Merit challenges envy.
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