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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

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity

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.

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