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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

John Dryden

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
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
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer

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