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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

John Dryden

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
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
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
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

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