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

John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
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
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
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
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
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
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking

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

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