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Merit challenges envy.

John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
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
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
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

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