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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

John Dryden

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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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
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
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset

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