We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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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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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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