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/ page 157 of 1205 /He who will not reason is the bigot; he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave.
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All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .
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I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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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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Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
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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 the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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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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Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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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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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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How can finite grasp infinity
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All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
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And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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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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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
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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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