Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENOld age creeps on us where we think it night.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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