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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

John Dryden

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

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