Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENMen 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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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