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By education most have been misled.

John Dryden

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
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
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
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
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave

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