Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENSince a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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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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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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