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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man

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