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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

Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time

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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