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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
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
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble

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