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.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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