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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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Even victors are by victories undone.

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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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But love's a malady without a cure.

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And plenty makes us poor.

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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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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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All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

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What passions cannot music raise or quell?

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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

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

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