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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
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
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
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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