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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

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