Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the...

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the...

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me...

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me...

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more...

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more...

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

I dote on his very absence.

I dote on his very absence.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.

Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.

There is a history in all men's lives.

There is a history in all men's lives.

A light heart lives long

A light heart lives long

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night

O, had I but followed the arts!

O, had I but followed the arts!

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Past and to come seems best; things present worst

Past and to come seems best; things present worst

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

The changes wrought by time are like the gathering of a river which feeds stream...

The changes wrought by time are like the gathering of a river which feeds stream...