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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
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
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
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
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

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