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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind

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