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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

John Dryden

Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
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
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

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