Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDENSeas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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