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A happy genius is the gift of nature.

John Dryden

Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
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
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
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
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
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
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

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

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