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.
JOHN DRYDENPlots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Love is love’s reward.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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