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The bravest men are subject most to chance.

John Dryden

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
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
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
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
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing

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