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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
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 love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
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
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud

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