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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

John Dryden

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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
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
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

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