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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

John Dryden

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
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
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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