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The first is the law, the last prerogative.

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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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And plenty makes us poor.

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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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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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For they conquer who believe they can.

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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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Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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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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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

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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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