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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725) -
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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But when mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125 -
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Pensees (1669) -
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
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Despair and confidence both banish fear.
Doomsday (1614) The Ninth Hour, 35
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