Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDENPity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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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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Order is the greatest grace.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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