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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

John Dryden

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN

Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bitter Poem Satire
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

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