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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

John Dryden

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
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
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
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
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.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

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