Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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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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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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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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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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