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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

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
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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