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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
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

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