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Pride – Lord of human kind.

John Dryden

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
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
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
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise

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