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John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) quote: "Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange"

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Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
There's not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
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Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life,
Is the best can be said for a very good wife.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
The only objection against the Bible is a bad life
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
There's not a thing on earth that I can name,So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
Womankind more joy discovers, Making fools, than keeping lovers
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
And ever since the Conquest have been fools.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.The Difference lies, as far as I can see,Not in the t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
Dead, we become the lumber of the world.
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Angels listen when she speaks:She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder;But my jealous heart would bre...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to...
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A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
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Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on, Who never said a foolish...
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Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
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'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
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'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
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All men would be cowards if they could.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations ...
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.
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Change is always a little bit strange.
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'Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone;/ Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
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John Wilkes . . . That ...
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Change the Strange
TODD ZIMMERMAN
[A] mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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Change alone is unchanging.
HERACLITUS
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by De...
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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
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'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.
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'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
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'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE
When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years.
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The racing law is going to have to change.
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but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.
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MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and gen...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU
The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great, And I am ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every...
JOHN SELDEN
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every...
JOHN SELDEN
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
EDMUND WALLER
The people of Florida's 2nd Congressional District said, 'Steve, go up there and fight to ch...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND
Earl does what Earl does. Score, rebound and intimidate.
DERRICK ESTELLE

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E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to...
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A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
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She hears a broken amorous g...
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Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
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He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
FREDERICK HOWARD, FIFTH EARL OF CARLISLE
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire o...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX
How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone; But those which soonest ...
JOHN NORRIS OF BEMERTON
Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel. To l...
JOHN NORRIS OF BEMERTON
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
EARL NIGHTINGALE
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
EARL NIGHTINGALE
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've go...
EARL WEAVER
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
EARL WILSON
People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I ...
EARL WEAVER
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to ...
EARL NIGHTINGALE
Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bea...
EARL WARREN
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...
EARL WARREN
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
EARL WILSON
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
EARL WILSON
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
EARL WILSON
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
EARL WILSON
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we...
EARL WILSON
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
EARL WILSON
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
EARL WILSON
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt...
EARL WILSON
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON
A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
EARL WILSON
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
EARL WILSON
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER
I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER
I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words...
EARL WEAVER
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who playe...
EARL WEAVER
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi...
EARL WEAVER
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER
Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's lean...
EARL WEAVER
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smar...
EARL WEAVER
There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're mak...
EARL WEAVER
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That'...
EARL WEAVER
This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
EARL WEAVER
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
EARL WEAVER
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
EARL WEAVER
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always t...
EARL WEAVER
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
EARL WEAVER
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
EARL WEAVER
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any s...
EARL WARREN
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public educa...
EARL WARREN
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
EARL WARREN
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were convers...
EARL WARREN
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we lea...
EARL WARREN
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first...
EARL WARREN

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