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They say everything in the world is good for something.

John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
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
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time

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