For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDENLove and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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