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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

John Dryden

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
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
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
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
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
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
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair

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