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Pride – Lord of human kind.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
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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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal

Pride – Lord of human kind.

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