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For they can conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret

For they can conquer who believe they can.

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