Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
JOHN DRYDEN
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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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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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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