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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN

Nature Obligation Response Trust
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust

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