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Your love by ours we measure Till we have lost our treasure, But dying is a pleasure, When living is a pain.
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This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,...
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Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
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All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
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Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
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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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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
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Nor is the people's judgement always true; The most may err as grossly as the few.
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All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey; This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long: In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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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.
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We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could Til our love was lov'd out in us both; But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure has fled: 'Twas pleasure that made it an oath.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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