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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
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
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
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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