Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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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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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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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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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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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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