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“The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“He assigned it to regions more than tropical.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“Barkis is willin'!”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. I)
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“Then join in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson Quotes Source: The Liberty Song of 1768
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“What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.”
John Dickinson Quotes Source: The Liberty Song of 1768
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“Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.”
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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“The truly noble mind has no resentments.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“If gaming does an aged sire entice,
Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“None but the brave deserve the fair.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Take the goods the gods provide thee.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: also attributed to William Shakespeare
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
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“A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Actitophel (pt. I, l. 545)
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“Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Conquest of Granada (pt. II, act I, sc. 2)
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“Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]”
Alexandre Dumas pere Quotes Source: Ange Pitou (vol. I, p. 72)
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“While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her silver sound,
Is wont with spede to send redresse.”
Alexandre Dumas pere Quotes Source: Ange Pitou (vol. I, p. 72)
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“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
Elizabeth I Quotes Source: Worthies of England (vol. I, p. 419), by Thomas Fuller, (written on window pane under words written
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“To make a mountain of a mole-hill.”
Sir Henry Ellis Quotes Source: Original Letters--Second Series (p. 312)
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“A true friend is tested in adversity.”
Sir Henry Ellis Quotes Source: Original Letters--Second Series (p. 312)
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“One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding
an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]”
Quintus Ennius Quotes Source: (Latin)
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