Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENWhat precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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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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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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By education most have been misled.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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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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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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