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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

John Dryden

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
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 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
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

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