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God never made his work for man to mend.

John Dryden

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
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
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
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
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
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
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
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves

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