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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

John Dryden

War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
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
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
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
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
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

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