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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden

A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
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
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advise Sick

There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

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