Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDENLet Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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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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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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