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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.

John Dryden

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
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
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness

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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