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They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
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
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
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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