Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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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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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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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 love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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War is the trade of kings.
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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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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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