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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

John Dryden

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

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