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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

John Dryden

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
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
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
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
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
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
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

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