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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

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