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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Goodness Love Thinking World

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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