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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
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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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
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

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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