They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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