Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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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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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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