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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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For they conquer who believe they can.
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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They think to little who talk to much.
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The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.Successionm for the general good design'd,In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
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Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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How can finite grasp infinity
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much.
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