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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

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
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
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
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
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known

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