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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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By night an atheist half believes in a God.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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They only babble who practise not reflection.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
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Too low they build who build below the skies.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Poet
Date of Birth: July 3, 1683
Date of Death: April 5, 1765
Nationality: English





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