When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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