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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.

John Dryden

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
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
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief

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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