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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.

John Dryden

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
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
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
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
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

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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