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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man

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