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Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
Topic: Action
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they
cannot find it.
Topic: Action
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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Nothing happens until something moves.
Topic: Action
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees
results.
Topic: Action
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Topic: Ambition
Source: None
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'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst
That the best things corrupted, are the worst;
'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd
Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;
That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)
Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
Topic: Corruption
Source: Progress of Learning
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Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
Topic: Despair
Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
Topic: Despair
Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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You prove but too clearly that seeking to know
Is too frequently learning to doubt.
[Fr., Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher a connaitre
N'est souvent qu' apprendre a douter.]
Topic: Doubt
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the
treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and
realized that I had dug my own grave.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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Who fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Topic: Fame
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 129)
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose
Those made not poets, but the poets those.
Topic: Poets
Source: Cooper's Hill
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The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
Topic: Sight
Source: in Todd's "Johnson"
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O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme;
Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Topic: Thames River
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 189)
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Topic: Youth
Source: Of Prudence (l. 225)
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