At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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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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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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