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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.

John Dryden

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
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
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right

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